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Classical

DICTIONARY

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THE THIRD EDITION,

CORRECTED AMD ENLARGED.

LONDON;;

PRINTED FOR HOOPER AND WIGSTEAd f
NO. 212, HIGH HOLBORN* FACING BLOOMSBURY SQUARE,

1796.

P R E F A CE

TO THE

SECOND EDITION.

THE favourable reception with which
this Book was honoured by the Pub-
lic, has encouraged the Editor to prefent a
fecond edition, more corredtly arranged, and
very confiderably enlarged. Some words and
explanations in the former edition having
been pointed out as rather indecent or indeli-
cate, though to be found in Le Roux, and
other Gloflaries of the. like kind, thefe have
been either omitted, foftened, or their ex-
planations taken from books long fandtioned
with general approbation, and admitted into
the feminaries for the education of youth —
fuch as Bailey's, Miege's, or Philips's Die-*
tionaries ; fo that it is hoped this work will
how be found as little offenlive to delicacy as
the nature of it would admit.

A lift is here added of fuch books as have
been confulted for the additions.

a 2 A CA-

HVolol

IV PREFACE TO THE

A ■• , N •

CAVEAT

FOR

COMMON CURSETORS,

VULGARLY CALLED

V AG A BON E S;

JET FORTH BY

THOMAS HARM AN, Esquier,

FOR THE

Utilitie and Proffyt of hys Naturall Countrye.

Newly Augmented and Imprinted, Anno Domini

M.D.LXVII.

Viewed, Examined, and Allowed according unto
the Queen's Majeftye's Injunctions.

Imprinted at London, in Flcte-ftrcct, at the Signe of
the Faulcon, by William Gryffith; and are. to
be folde at his Shoppe in Saynt Dunftone's CKurche
Yarde, in -the Weft,

SECOND EDITION.

jsr

THE

CANTING ACADEMY;

oa,

VILLANIES DISCOVERED:

WHEREIN ARE SHEWN

The Myftcrious and Villanous Pra&ices of that Wicked
Crew, commonly known by the Names of

HECTORS, TRAPANNERS, GILTS, &c.

. With feveral NEW CATCHES and SONGS*

ALSO A

i

COMPLEAT CANTING DICTIONARY,

JBOTH OP

' Old Words, and fuch as are now mojl in Ufe.

A Book very ufeful and necejflary (to be known, but

not pra&ifed) fpr all People.

THE SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed by; F. Leach, for Mat. Drew; and are to be

fold by the Bookfellers.

N. B. Tie Dedication is figntd, R. Head.

\

^6 PREFACE TO THE

HELL upon EARTH;

OH THB MOST PLEASANT AND D2LBCTABLB

HISTORY

OF

WHITTINGTON's COLLEDGE,

OTHSRW1SB (VULGARLY) CALLED

N E W G A T E.

Giving an Account of the Humours of thofe Col-
legians who are ftri&ly examined at the Old
Bailt, and take their higheft Degrees
near Hyde Park Corner.

Being very ufeful to all Perfons, either Gentle or Simple,
in (hewing them the Manner of the Robberies and
Cheats, committed by Villains on the Nation ;
whereby they may be the • more careful of being
wronged by them for the future.

LONDON:

PRINTED IN THE YEAR IJGJ.

SECOND EDITION.

vu

THE

SCOUNDREL'S DICTIONARY;

OR, AN

EXPLANATION

OF THB

CANT WORDS ufed by THIEVES, HOUSE-
BREAKERS, STREET ROBBERS, and
PICKPOCKETS about Town.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

Some Curious Dissertations on the ART

of WHEEDLING,

AND A

Colleaion of their FLASH SONGS, with a
PROPER GLOSSARY.

The whole printed from a Copy taken on one of their Gang,
in the late Scuffle between the Watchmen and a Party of
them on Clerkenwell Green ; which Copy is now in
the Cuftody of one of the Conftables of that Parifh.

LONDON:

Printed for J. Brownnell, in Pater- nofter-row.

m.dcc.liv.

[ Price Sixpence. ]

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PREFACE

TO THE

FIRST EDITION.

THE great approbation with which £o
polite a nation as France has received
the Satirical and Burlefque Di<5tionary of
Monfieur Le Roux, teftified by the feveral
editions it has gone through, will, it is hoped,
apologize for an attempt to compile an Eng-
lifli Dictionary on a fimilar plan ; our lan-
guage being at leaft as copious as the French,
and as capable of the witty equivoque; be-
fides which, the freedom of thought and
Ipeech arifing from, and privileged by, our
constitution, gives a force and poignancy to
the expreffions of bur common people, not
to be found under arbitrary governments,
where the ebullitions of vulgar wit are
checked by the fear of the baflinado„ or of a
lodging during pleafure in fome gaol or caftle.

The many vulgar aUufions and cant ex-
preffions that fo frequently occur in our com-

A rnon

JC PREFACE TO THE

mon converfation and periodical publications,
make a work of this kind extremely ufeful*
if not abfolutely necefTary, not only to fo-
reigners, but even to natives refident at a dif*
tance from the Metropolis, or who do not
mix in the bufy world : without fome fuch
help, they might hunt through all the ordi-
nary Dictionaries, from Alpha to Omega,"
in fearch of the words, " black legs, lame
" duck, a plumb, malingeror, nip cheefe,
u darbies, and the new drop,*' although
thefeare all terms of well known import at
Kewmarket, Exchange -alley, the City, the
Parade, Wapping, and Newgate,

The fafhionable words, or favourite ex-*
preflions of the day, alfo find their way into
our political and theatrical compofitions ;
thefe, as they generally originate from fomq
trifling event, or temporary circumftance, ot%
falling into difufe, or being fuperfeded by '
new ones, vanifli without leaving a trace
behind. Such were the late fafhionable words,
41 bore and a twaddle, among the great vul-
gar ; maccaroni and the barber, among the
fmall: thefe, too, are here carefully regif-
tered.

FIRST EDITION. XI

■ The Vulgar Tongue confifls of two parts :
the fir ft is the Cant Language, called fome-
times Pedlars French, or St* Giles's Greek ;
the fecond, thofe burlefque phraies, quaint
lallufions, and nick-names for peffons, things,
and places, which, from long uninterrupted
ufage, are made claffical by prefcription.

Refpefting the firft, that is, the canting
language, take the account given of its origin, '
and the cataftrophe of its inftitutor, from
Mr. Harrifon^ Defcription of England, pre-
fixed to Hollingfhead's Chronicle; where,
treating of beggars, gypfies, &c. he fays,
It is not yet fifty years fith this tirade be-
gan : but how it hath profpered Athens
that time, it is eafy to judge ; for they are
now fuppofed^ of one fexe^and another,
to amount unto above ten thoufand per-
€C fons, as I have harde reported. More-
over, in counterfeiting the Egyptian roges,
they havedevifed a language among thenx-
felves, which they name Canting, but
others Pedlars French , a fpeache compact
" thirty years fince of Engliih, and a great
u number of odde wordes of their own de-
vifing, without all order or reafon ; and
yet fuch it is, as none but themfelves arc

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" able to underftand. The firft devifer
*• thereof was hanged by the neck, as a juft
iC reward, no doubt, for his defartes, and a
<c common end to all of that profeffion.

" A gentleman (Mr* Thomas Harman)
" alfo of late hath taken great paines to
fearch out the fecret pradtizes of this un-
gracious rabble ; and, among other things,
he fetteth down and defcribeth twenty- two
" forts of them, whofe names it fhall not
" be amiffe to remember, whereby each one
may gather what wicked people they are,
and what villany remaineth in them.

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For this lift fee the word Crew. — This
Vas the origin of the cant language * its

*erms have beetf collected from the follow*

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.ing Treatifes :

The Bellman of London* bringing to light
the moft notorious villanies that are now
pra&ifed in the kingdom. Profitable for
gentlemen, lawyers, merchants, citizens, far-
mers, mafters of houfeholds, and all forts
of fervants, to marke, and delightfull for
men to reade.— Lege ; Perlege, Relege* —

1608.

Thieves

FIRST EDITION. : X114

Thieves falling out, true men come by
their goods . — 1 6 1 5 .

Englijh Fi/Ianies, feven feverall times preft
to death by the printers; but (ftiil reviving
againe) are now the eighth time (as the firft)
difcovered by lanthorne and candle-light •
and the help of a new cryer, called O-per-fe
O ; whofe loud voyce proclaimes, to all that
will heare him, another confpiracy of abufes
lately plotting together, to hurt the peace of
the kingdom ; which the bell-man (becaufe
he ther went flumbling i'th'dark) could never
fee till now ; and becaufe a company of
rogues, cunning canting gy plies, and all the
fcumme of our nation, fight under their
tattered colours. At the end is a canting
dictionary to teach their language, with
canting fongs. A booke to make gentlemen,
-merry, citizens warie, countrymen carefull ;
fit for juftices to reade over, becaufe it is a
pilot by whom they may make ftrange dif-
coveries, — London, 1638.

Bailey's, and the new Canting Didtionary*
have alfo been confulted, with the Hiftory
of Bamfield More Carew, the Sefliona
Papers, and other njtodern authorities. As

many

ii* Preface to T»fi

many of thefe terms are ftill profetfiorially
ufed by our prefent race of free-booters of
different denominations* who feem to have
eftablifhed a fyftematical manner of carrying
on their builnefs, a knowledge of them may
therefore be ufeful to gentlemen in the com*
miffion of the peace.

The fecond part, or burlefque terms, have
been drawn from the moft clafiical authori-
ties; fuch as foldiers on the long march,
feamen at the capftern, ladies difpofing of
their fifh, and the colloquies of a Gravefend
boat.

Many heroic fentences, expreffing and in-
culcating a contempt of death, have been
caught from the mouths of the applauding
populace, attending thofe triumphant pro*
cefiions up Holborn-hill, with which many
an unfortunate hero till lately finifhed his
courfe: and various choice flowers have been
collected at executions, as well thofe author
rifed by the fentence of the law, and per-
formed under the direction of the flier iff

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?s thofe infli&ed under the authority and in r
fpedtion of that impartial and fummary
tribunal, called the Mob, upon the pick-
pockets,

FIRST EDITIONt XV

pockets, informers, or other unpopular cri-
minals,

In the courfe of this work many ludicrous *
games and cuftoms are explained, which are
not to be met with in any other book: the
fuccellion of the finifhers of the law, the
abolition of the triumph or ovation of HoU
born-hill* with the introdudion of the pre-
fent mode of execution at Newgate, are
chronologically afcertainpd ; points of great
importance to both the prefent and future
compilers of the Tyburn Chronicle,

To prevent any charge of immorality be-
ing brought againft this work, the Editor
begs leave to obferve, that when an indeli-
cate or immodeft word has obtruded itfeif
for explanation, he has endeavoured to get
rid of it in the moft decent manner poffible ;
^nd none have been admitted but fuch as
either could not be left out without render-
jng the work incomplete, or in fome mea-
fure compenfate by their wit for the trefpafs
committed on decorum, Indeed, refpe&ing
this matter, he can with great truth make
the fame defence that Falftaff ludicroufly
ur^es in behalf of one engaged in rebellion,

yiz.

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Xvi PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

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viz. that he did not feek them, but that, like
rebellion in the cafe inftanced,' they lay in his
way, and he found them.

The Editor likewife begs leave to add,
that if he has had the misfortune to run foul
of the dignity of any body of men, profeflion,
or trade, it is totally contrary to his inten-
tion ; and he hopes the interpretations given
to any particular terms that may feem to bear
hard upon thcm> will not be confidered as
Ibis Sentiments, but as the fentiments of the
perfons by whom fuch terms were firft in*
vented* or thofe by whom they are ufed.

CLASSICAL

D,I C T I O N A R Y

OF THE

VULGAR TONGUE.

A;

A.

A C O

BBESS, or Lady Abbess. A bawd, the miftrefs of a
' brothel.

Abel-Wackets. Blows given on the palm of the hand with a
twilled handkerchief, inftead of a ferula; a jocular punifhnrent
among fearaen, who fometimes play at cards for wackets, the.
lofer fufferjng as many ftrokes as he has loft games.

Abigail. A lady's waiting- maid* .

Abram. Naked. Cant, x

Abram Cove. A cant word among thieves^ fignifying a naked
or poor man ; alfo a lufty, ftrong rogue.

Abram Men. Pretended mad men,

To sham Abram, To pretend ficknefs*

Academy, or Pushing School, A brothel. — The Float-
, ing Academy; the lighters on board of which thofe perfbns
are confined, who by a late regulation are condemned to hard
labour, inftead of tranfportation. -^-Campbell's Academy; the
fame, from a gentleman of that name, who had the contrail:
for finding and victualling the hulks or lighters.

Accounts. To-caft up one's accounts; to vomit.

Acorn. You will ride a horfe foaled by an acorn; i.e. the
gallows, called alfo the Wooden and Three-legged Mare.
You will be hanged. — See Three-legged mare.

B - Act

A L D

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Act of Parliament* A military term for fmall beer, five
pints of which, by an adl of parliament, a landlord was for-
merly obliged to give to each foldier gratis.

Act eon. A cuckold, from the horns planted on the head of '
Ac*leon by Diana.

Adam's Ale. Water.

Adam Tiler. A pickpocket's aflbciate, who receives the
ftolen goods, and runs off with them. Cant.

Adams. The moft ancient, honourable, and venerable fociety
of the name of Adams, A. D. 1 750, held their meetings at
the Royal Swan, Kingfland Road, kept by George Adams.

Addle Pate. An inconfiderate foolifh fellow*

Addle Plot. A fpoil-fport, a mar-all.

Admiral of the Blue, who carries his flag on the main- m aft,
A landlord or publican wearing a blue apron, as was formerly
the cuftom among gentlemen of that vocation.

Admiral of the Narrow Seas. One who from drunken*
nefs vomits into the lap of the perfon fitting oppofite to him.
Sea, pbrnfe.

Adrift. Loofe, turned adrift, difcharged. Seaphrafe*

Affidavit Men. Knights of the poft, or falfe witneues,
faid to attend Weftminfter Hall, and other courts of juftice,
feady to fwear any thing for hire ; diftinguifhed by having
ftraw ftuck in the heels of their fhoes.

After-Clap. A demand after the firft given in has been,
difcharged ; a charge for pretended omiflions ; in fhort, any
thing difagreeable happening after all conferences of the
caufe have been thought at an end.

Against the Grain. Unwilling. It went much againft
the grain with him, i. e f it was much againft his inclination,
or againft his pluck.

Agog, All-a-gog. Anxious, eager, impatient : from the
Italian agogare, to defire' eagerly.

Aground. Stuck faft, (topped, at a loft, ruined; like a boat
or veffel aground.

Air and Exercise. He has had air and exercife, i. e, he has
been whipped at the cart's tail ; or, as it is generally, though
more vulgarly, exprefled, at the cart's a-fe

Akerman's Hotel. Newgate. In 1787 a perfon of thai
name was the gaoler, or keeper,

JVlderman* A roafted turkey garniihed. with faufages; the

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A M ft

latter are fuppofed to represent the gold chain worn by thofe
magiflrates.

Aldgate. A draught on the ptiirip at Aldgate ; a bad bill of ex-
change, drawn on per Cons who have no effects of the drawer*

Ale Draper. An alehoufe keeper*

Ale Post. A may-pole.

All-a-mort. Struck dumb, confounded.

All Holiday. It is all holiday at Peckham, or it is all holi-
day with him ; a faying fignifying that it is all over with the
bufinefs or perfon fpoken of or alluded to.

All Hollow. He was beat all hollow, i. e. he had no chance
of conquering : it was all hollow, or a hollow thing; it was
a decided thing from the beginning. See Hollow. .

All Nations. A compofition of all the different fpirits fold
in a dram-fhop, collected in a veflel, into which the drainings
of the bottles and quartern pots are emptied.

Alls. The five alls is a country fign, reprefenting five human
figures, each having a motto under him. The firft is a king
in his regalia; his motto, I govern all : the fecond, a bifhop
in pontificals ; motto, I pray for all : third, a lawyer in his
gown; motto, I plead for all : fourth, a foldier in his regi-
mentals, fully accoutred ; motto, I fight for all : fifth, a poor
countryman with his fey the and rake ; motto, I pay for all.

Alsatia the Higher. White Friars, once a place privi-
leged from arrefts for debt, as was alfo the Mint, but fup-
prefled on account of the notorious abufes committed there.

Alsatia the Lower. The Mint in Southwark.

Alsatians. The inhabitants of White Friars or the Mint.

Alt am el. A verbal or lump account, without particulars*
fuch as is commonly produced at bawdy-houfes, fpunging-
houfes, &c« Vide Dutch Reckoning.

Altitudes. The man is in his altitudes, i. e. he is drunk.

Ambassador. A trick to<luck fome ignorant fellowor landf-
man, frequently played on board (hips in the warm latitudes.
It is thus managed : A large tub is filled with water, and two
ftools placed on each fide of it. Over the whole is-tbjown a
tarpawlin, or old fail : this is kept tight by two perfons, who
are to reprefent the king and queen of a foreign country, and
are feated on the ftools. The perfon intended to be ducked
plays the AmbafTador, and after repeating a ridiculous fpeech
dictated to him, is led in great form up to the throne, and
feated between the king and queen, who riiing fuddenly as
foonas he is feated, he falls backwards into the tub of water.

B z . Ambi-

ANT

Ambtdexter. A lawyer who takes fees from both plaintiff
and defendant, or that goes (hacks with both parties in gam-
ing.

Amen Curler. Aparifh clerk.

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Amen. He faid Yes and Amen to every thing ; he agreed to
every thing.

Aminadab. A jeering name for a Quaker.

Ames Ace. Within ames ace; nearly, 1 very near.

To Amuse. To fling dull or fnufFin the eyes of the perfon in-
tended to be robbed ; alfo to invent fome plaufible tale, to de-
lude (hopkeepers and others, 1 thereby to put them off their
guard. Cant.

Amusrrs. Rogues who carried fnufFor duft in their pockets,
which they threw into the eyes of any perfon they intended to
tob ; *nd running away, their accomplices (pretending to aflift

• and pity the half- blinded perfon) took that opportunity of
plundering him.

An a b ap ti st. A pickpocket caught in the fadt:, and puniftied
with the difcipline of the pump or horfe-pond.

Anchor^ Bring your a-fe to an anchor, L e. fit down. To
let go an anchor to the windward of the law ; to keep within
the letter of the law* Sea wit.

Anglers. Pilferers, or petty thieves, who, with a flick having •
a hook at the end, (teal goods out of (hop windows, grates,
&c. ; alfo thofe who draw in or entice unwary perfons to prick
at the belt, or fuch like devices.

Angling for Farthings. Begging out of a prifon win-
dow with a cap, or box, let down at the end of a long
firing.

Ankle A girl who is got with child, is faid to have fprained
' her ankle.

Anodyne Necklace. A halter.

Anthony of Tantony Pig. The favourite or fmalleft pig
in the litter. — To follow 1 ke a tantony pig, i. e. St. An-
thony's p'g; to follow clofe at one's heels. St. Anthony
the hermit was a fwineherd, and is always reprefented with
a fwine's bell and a pig. Some derive this faying from a
privilege enjoyed by the friars of certain convents in England\
ind France (fons of St. Anthony), whofe fwine were permitted
to feed in the ftreets. Thefe fwine would follow any one
having greens or other provifions, till they obtained fome of
them ; and it was in thofe days conildered an aft of charity
and religion to feed them.

A R D

To knock Anthony. Said of an in-kneed perfbrv, or ottc
whofe knees knock together; to cuff Jonas. See Jonas.

Ape Leader. An old maid: their punifhment after death*
for neglecting to increafe and multiply, will be, it is faid,
leading apes in hell.

Apostles. To manoeuvre the apoflles, i. e. rob Peter to
pay Paul; that is, to borrow money of one man to pay
another.

Apothecary. To talk like an apothecary ; to uie hard, or

f alii pot words : from' the aftumed gravity and affectation of
nowledge generally put on by the gentlemen of that profef-
-fion, who are commonly as fuperficial in' their learning as
they are pedantic in their language.

Apothecary's Bill, A long bill.

Apothecary's, or Law Latin. Barbarous Latin, vulgarly
called Dog Latin, in Ireland Bog Latin.

Apple Cart. Down with his apple-cart; knock or throw
him down.

Apple Dumplin Shop. A woman's bofom.

Apple-pye Bed. A bed made apple-pye falhion, like what
is called a turnover apple-pye, where the meets are fo doubled
as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them :
a common trick played by frolicfome country lafles on their
fweethearts, male relations, or vifitors.

April Fool. Any one impofed on, or fent on a bootlefs
errand, on the firft of April ; on which day it is the tuftom
among the lower people, children, and fervants, by dropping
empty papers carefully doubled up, fending perfons on abfurd
meifages, and fuch like contrivances, to impofe on every
one they can, and then to falute them with the title of April
Fool. This is alfo prattifed in Scotland under the title of
Hunting the Gowke.

Apron String Hold, An eftate held by a man during his
wife's life. *

Aqua Pumpaginis. Pump water. Apothecaries Latin.

Arbor Vitje. A man's penis.

Arch Duke. A comical or eccentric fellow.

Arch Rogue, or Dimber Damber Upright Man. The
chief df a gang of thieves or gypfies.

Arch Dell, or Arch Doxy, fignifies the fame in rank among
the female canters or gypfies,

Ard, Hot. CanU

Aristippus,

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AftrtTiPrtts* A diet drink, 6r deco&ion of farfaparilfa, china*
Sec. fold at certain coffee -houfes, and drank as tea.

Armour. In his armour, pot valiant : to fight in armour ; td
make ufe of Mrs. Philips 's ware. See C-- d— m.

Ark. A boat or wherry* Let us take an ark and wirins ; let
us take a fculler. Cant.

Ark Ruffians. Rogues who, in conjunction with Water-men*
jobbed, and fometimes murdered, on the water, by picking a
ouarrel with the paflengers in a boat, boarding it, plundering,
tripping, and throwing them overboard, &c. A fpecies of
badgers. Cant,

Arrah now. An unmeaning expletive, frequently ufed by
the vulgar Irifh.

Ars Musica. A bum -fiddle.

Arse* To hang an arfe ; to hang back, to be afraid to ad-
vance. He would lend his a— e, and fh-te through his ribs ;
a faying of any one who lends his money inconfiderately.
He would lofe his a— e if it was loofe ; faid of a carelefs per-
ion. A— e about ; turn round.

Arsy varsey. To fall arfy varfey, i. e. head over heels.

Arthur; King Arthur. A game ufed at fea, when near
• the line, or in a hot latitude. It is performed thu6 : A man
who is to reprefent king Arthur, ridiculoufly drefled, having
a large wig made out of oakum, or fome old fwabs, is feated
on the fide, or over a large veiTel of water. Every perfon in
bis turn is to be ceremonioufly introduced to him, and to pour
a bucket of water over him, crying, Hail, king Arthur! If
during this ceremony the perfon introduced laughs or fmiles
(to which his majefty endeavours to excite him, by all forts of
ridiculous gefticulations), he changes place with, and then
becomes, king Arthur, till relieved by fome brother tar, who
has as little command over his mufcles as himfelf.

Articles. Breeches ; coat, waiftcoat, and articles.

Ask, or Ax my A-e. A common reply to any queftion ; ftill
deemed wit at fea, and formerly at court,' under the denomi-
nation of felling bargains. See Bargain.

Assig. An affignation.

Athanasian Wench, or Quicunque vult." A forward
. girl, ready to oblige every man that fhall aik her.

Aunt. Mine aunt; a bawd or procurefs : a title of eminence
for the fenior dells, who ferve for inftruclrefles, midwives, &c.
for the dells. Canu See Dells.

Avoir

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A U T

Avoir du pois Lay* Stealing brafs weights off the countca
of (hops. Cant.

Autcm. A church,

Autem Bawler, * A parfon. Cant.

AUTEM CaCKLERS, 1 n .ir . _ r ' . - . ~

Autem Pmckeam.} D»ff«»«rs of every <fcnom« n at,oB.C^.

Autem Cackle Tub. A conventicle or meeting~hou(e for
diffenters. Cant.

Autem Dippers. Anabaptifts. Cant.

Autem Divers. Pickpockets who pra&ife in churches; alio
churchwardens and overfeers of the poor. Cant.

Autem Gog l e rs. Pretended French prophets. Canu

Autem Mort. A married woman; alfo a female beggar
- with feveral children hired or borrowed to excite chanty.
Cant.

Autem Quavers. Quakers.

Autem Quaver Tub. A Quakers meeting-houfe. Cast.

**im

B.

B A C

B

'ABES in th e Wood • Criminals in the ftocks, or pillory.

Babble. Confufed, unintelligible talk, fuchas was ufed at the
building the tower of Babel.

B a e k B i t e r . One who (landers another behind his back, i. e.
in, his abfence. His bofom friends are become his back
biters, faid of a luufy man,

Backed. Dead. He wifhes to have the fenior, or old fquare-
Aoest backed : he longs to have his father on fix men's moul-
ders ; that isj carrying to the grave. •

Back up. His back is up, i. e. he is offended or angry: an
expreffion or idea taken from a'cat; that animal, when angry,
always railing its back. An allufion alfo fometimes ufed to
Jeer a crooked man ; as, So, Sir, I fee fomebody has offend-
ed you, for your back is ujy

Bacon,

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BAM

Bacon. He l\as faved his bacon; he has efcaped. He ha* a
good voice to beg bacon ; a faying in ridicule of a bad voice.

Bacon faced. Full faced.

Bacon fed. Fat, greafy.

Back Gammon Player. A fodomite.

Back Door (Usher, or Gentleman of the). The fame.

Bad Bargain. One of his majefty's bad bargains; a worth-
lefs foldier, a inalingeror. See Malingeror.

Badge. A term ufed for one burned in the hand. He has got
his badge, and piked; he was burned in the hand, and is at
liberty. Cant,

Badge Coves. Parifh penfioners. Cant,

JSadgers. A crew of defperate villains who robbed near
livers, into which they threw the bodies of thofe they mur-
dered. Cant,

To Badger. To confound, perplex, or teize,

Bag. He gave them the bag, i. e. left them.

Bag of Nails. He fquints like a bag of nails; i. e. his eyes
are directed as many ways as the points of a bag of nails.
The old Bag of Nails at Pimlico; originally the Bao

CHANTALS.

Baggage.- Heavy baggage; women and children* Alfo 3
familiar epithet for a woman ; as, cunning baggage, wanton
baggage, &c,

Bakers Dozen. Fourteen ; that number of rolls being allow*
ed to the purchafers of a dozen.

B a k e r- k n ee'd. One whofe knees knock together in walking,
as If kneading dough.

Balderdash. Adulterated wine,

B alloc ks. The tefticles of a man or bead; alfo a vulgar
nick name for a parfon.

Ballum Rancum, A hop or dance, where the women arc,
all proftitutes. N. B. The company dance in their birth-day
fuits.

Balsam. Money ,

Bam. A jocular impofition* the fame as a humbug. See;
Humbug.

To Bam. To impofe on any one by a falfity ; alfo to jeer or

make fun of any one.

To Bamboozle. To iriakc a fool of any one, to humbug or
impofe on him.

Banaghan,

BAR

Ban aghan* He beats Banaghan ; an Iriih faying of one who
tells wonderful dories. Perhaps Banaghan was a jmnftrel
famous for dealing in the marvellous*

Sandbox, Mine a-fe on a bandbox; an anfwer to the offer
of any thing inadequate to the purpofe for which it is prof-
fered, like offering a bandbox for a feat.

Banbuky Story of a Cock and a Bull* A roundabout,
nonfenfical ftory.

Bandog. A bailiff or his follower; alfo a very fierce maftiff:
likewife, a bandbox. Cant.

.Ba ndore. A widow's mourning peak ; alfo a mufical inftru-
menu

To Bang. To beat.

Banging. Great : a fine banging boy.

Bang Straw. A nick name for a threflier, but applied to all
the (ervants of a farmer.

Bankrupt Cart. A one-horfe chaife, faid to be fo called
by a Laid Chief Juftice, from their being fo frequently ufed
on Sunday jaunt*. h£ extravagant (hopkeepers and tcadef*
men.

Banks's Horse. A horfe famous for playing tricks, the pro-
perty of one Banks. It is mentioned in Sir Walter Raleigh's
Hift. of the World, p. 178; alfo by Sir Kenelm Digby and
Ben Jonfon.

Bantling. A young child.

Banyan Day* A fea term for thofe days on which no
meat is allowed to the failors : the term is borrowed from
the Banyans in the Eafl Indies, a caft that eat nothing that
had life.

V

Baptized, or Christened. Rum, brandy* or any other
fpirits, that have been lowered with water.

Barber. That's the barber; a ridiculous and unmeaning
4 phrafe, in the mouths of the common- people about the year

1766, fignifying their approbation of any action, meafure,
or thing.

Barber's Chair. She is as eommon as a barber's chair, in
which a whole parifh fit to be trimmed; faid of a profti-
tute.

Barber's Sign. A (landing pole and two wafh-balls.

Bargain. To fell a bargain; a fpecies of wit, much in
vogue about the latter end of the reign of Queen Anne,
and fre^uentl^r alluded to by Dean Swift, who fays the

C maids

B A S

r Maids of honour often amufed themfelves with it. It con-
fided ki the feller naming his or her hinder parts, in anfwer
to the queftion, What ? which the buyer was artfully led to
alk. As a fpeeimen, take the following inftance : A lady
would come into a room full of company, apparently in a
fright, crying out, It is white, and follows me ! On- any of
the company afking. What ? fhe fold him the bargain, by
faying, Mine a— e.

Barker. The fhopman of a bow. wow (hop, or dealer in
fecond-hand clothes, particularly about Monmouth-ftreet,
who walks before his mailer's door, and deafens every paf-
fenger with his cries of— Clothes, coats, or gowns— what
d'ye want* gemmen? — what d'ye buy? See Bow* wow

SHOP f

Barkshire. A member or candidate for Barkfhirc; faid of
one troubled with a cough, vulgarly ftyled barking.

Barking Irons* Piftols, from their explofion refembling the
bow-wow or barking of a dog. Irijh.

Barn. A parfon's barn ; never fo full but there is Hill room
for more. Bit by a bam motrfe ; tipfey, probably from an
allufion to barley.

Ba rn ab y. An old dance to a quick movement. See Cotton,
in his Virgil TraveHi ; where, fpeaking of Eolus, he has .
thefe lines :

Bounce cry the port-holes, out they fly,
And make the world dance* Baraaby.

-Barnacle. A good job, or fnack eadly got; alfo (hell fifh
growing at the bottoms of {hips ; a bird of the goofe kind ;
an inftrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the notes of
vicious horfes whilft (hoeing ; a nick name for fpeftacles, and
alfo for the gratuity given to grooms by the buyers' and feller*
of horfes.

Parrel Fever, lie died of the barrel fever ; he killed him*
felf by drinking.

Bartholomew Baby. A perfpn dreflfed up in a tawdry man-
ner, like the dolls or babies fold at Bartholomew fair.

Bar Wig. A wig between a Dalmahoy and a double cauli-
flower or full bottom. See Dalmahoy.

Basket. An exclamation frequently made ufe of in cock-pits,
at cock-fightings, where perfons refuting .or unable to pay
their lofings, are adjudged by that refpe&able aflembly to be
put into a balket fufpended oyer the pit, there to remain
during that day's diverfion : on the leaft demur to pay a bet,

Bafkes

B E A

Bafket is vociferated in terrorem. He grins like a bafcet of
chips ; a faying of one who is on the broad grin.

Basket-making. The good old trade of bafket-making j
copulation, or making feet for children's ftockings.

Bastard. The child of an unmarried woman*

Bastardly Gujulion. A baftard's baftard.

To baste. To bent. I'll give him his baitings ; 111 beat
him heartily.

Casting. A beating*

Ba s to n ad i n g. Beating any one with a ftick ; from baton, a
flick, formerly fpelt ballon*

Batch* We had a pretty hatch of it laft night; we had a
hearty dofe of liquor. Batch originally means the whole
quantity of bread baked at one time in an oven*

Battner. An ox : beef being apt to batten or fatten thofe
that eat it. The cove has nufhed the battner ; i. e. has
killed the ox.

Batch elor's Fare. Bread and cheefe and kifTes.

Batchelor's Son. A baftard.

Battle-royal. A battle or bout at* cudgels or fifty-cuffs*
wherein more than two perfons are engaged : perhaps from
its refemblance, in that particular) to more ferious engage-
ments fought to fettle royal difputes.

Baudrans. A cat. Scotch*

Bawbee. A halfpenny. Scotch.

Bawbels, or Bawbles. Trinkets; a roan's telHoks*

Bawd. A female procurers.

Bawdy Basket. The twenty*third rank of canters, who
carry pins, tape, ballads, and obfcene books to fell, bat liv€t
moftly by dealing- Cant,

Bawdy- house Bottle. A very fmall bottle ; Ihort meafure
being among the many means ufed by the keepers of thofe
houfes, to gain what they call an honeft livelihood : indeed
this is one of the leaft reprehenfible ; the lefs they give a man
of their infernal beverages for his money, the kinder they
behave to him.

Uat Windows. Qld projecting windows*

Bayard of Ten Toes. To ride bayard of ten toes, is to
walk on foot. Bayard was a horfe famous in old ro-
mances.

B*'ak. A juftice of peace, or magistrate*

C 2 Bear.

BEE

t Bear* One who contra&s to deliver a certain quantity of
J Aim of dock in the public funds, on a future day, and at a

ftated price ; or, in other words, fells what he has aot got;
like the huntfman in the fable, who fold the bear's (kin be-
fore 1 the bear was killed. As the bear fells the ftock he is
not poflefled of, (o the bull pur chafes what he has not money
to pay for ; but in cafe of any alteration in the price agreed
on, either party pays or receives the difference* Exchange
Alley.

Bear-garden Jaw or Discourse* Rude, vulgar language,
fuch as was ufed at the bear-gardens.

Bear Leader. A travelling tutor.

Beard Splitter. A man much given to wenching.

Bearings. I'll bring him to his bearings; I'll bring him- to
reafon. Sea term.

Beast. To drink like a beaft, i. e. only when thirfty.

Beast with Two Backs. A man and woman in the a&of
copulation. Shake/peare in Othello.

Beater Cases. Boots. Cant.

Beau- nasty. A flovenly fop; one finely drefled, but dirty-

Beau Trap. A loofe ftone in a pavement, under whicH
water lodges, and, on being trod upon, fquirts it up,' to
the great damage of white ftockings; alfo a (harper 'neatly
drefled, lying in wait for raw country fquires, or ignorant,
fops.

Becalmed. A piece of fea wit, fported in hot weather. I
am becalmed, tne fail flicks to the maft ; that is, my fhirt
dicks to my back.

Beck. A beadle. SeeHERMANBECK.

Bed. Put to bed with a mattock, and tucked up with a fpade;
faid of one that is dead and buried. You will go up a
kdder to bed, i»e. you will be hanged; In many country
places, perfons hanged are made to mount up a ladder, which
is afterwards turned round or taken away ; whence the term,

^ «' Turned off."

Bedawbed all over with Lace. Vulgar faying of any
one drefled in clothes richly laced.

Bedfordshire. 1 4m for Bedfordshire, i. e. for going to bed.'

Bedizened. Drefled out, over- drefled, or awkwardly orna-
„ mented.

Beef. To cry beef; to give the alarm. They have cried
beef on us. - Canti—Ho be in a man's beef; to wound hint

with

BEL

with a fword* To be in a woman's beef; to have carnal
knowledge of her. Say you bought your beef of me 5 a jo-
cular requeft from a butcher to a fat man, implying that he
credits the butcher who fcrves him.

Beef Eater. A yeoman of the guards, inftituted by Hen-
ry VII. Their office was to ftand near the boufFer, or cup-
board, thence called Boaffetiers, fince corrupted to Beef
Eaters. Others fuppofe they obtained this name from the
fize of their perfons, and the eafinefs of their duty, as hav-
ing fcarce more to do than to eat the king's beef.

Beetle-browed, One having thick projecting eyebrows*

Beetle-headed. Dull, ftupid.

Beggar Maker* A publican, or ale-houfe keeper.

Beggars Bullets. Stones. The beggars bullets began to
fly, i. e, they began to throw ftones.

Beilby's Ball. He will dance at-Beilby's ball, where the
(heriff pays the mufic; he will be hanged. Who Mr.
Beilby was, or why that ceremony was fo called, remains;
;with the quadrature of the circle, the difcovery of the phi-
lofopher's ftone, and divers otjier deiiderata yet undisco-
vered.

Belch* All forts of beer;. that liquor being apt to caufe
eru elation.

Bell, Book, and Candle, They curfed him with bell,
book, and candle ; an allufion to the popifti form of excom «
muni eating and anathematizing perfons who had offended
the church.

To bear the Bell* To excel or furpafs all competitors, to
be the principal in a body or fociety ; an allufion to the fore
horfe or leader of a team, whofe harnefs is commonly orna-
mented with a bell or bells. Some fuppofe it a term bor-
rowed from an ancient tournament, where the victorious
knights bore away the belle ox fair lady. Others derive it
from a horfe- race, or other rural contentions, where bells
were frequently given as prizes*

Bellows. The lungs.

Bel lower* The town crier.

Belly* His eye was bigger than his belly; a faying of aper-
fon at a table, who takes more on his plate than he can eat**

Belly full* A hearty beating, fufficient to make a man
yield or give out* A woman with child is alfo faid to have
got her belly full.

Bellt

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BET

Buly Cheat. Ah apron.

Belly Plea. The plea of pregnancy, generally adduced bf
female felons capitally convicted, which they take care to
provide for, previous to their trials ; every gaol having, as
the Beggar's Opera informs us, one or more child getters,
who qualify the ladies for that expedient to procure a ref-
pite.

Bblly Timber. Food of all forts*

BellSwagqer. A noify bullying fellow.

Bell Wether. The chief or leader of a mob : an idea taken
from a flock of fheep, where the wether has a bell about hit
neck.

Bene. Good. — Benar. Better. Cant.

Bin i Bowse. Good beer, or other ftrong liquor. Cant 4

Bi mb Cove. A good fellow. Cant.

Bene Darkmans. Good night. Cant,

Bine Fearers. Counterfeiters of bills. C§nt.

Bine Feakers of Gybes. Counterfeiters of partes. Cant,

Bene shi ply. Worftiipfutly. Cant.

Ben. A fool. Cant.

Benish. Foolifh.

Ben 1 son. The beggax's benifon; May your ***** and purfe
never fail you.

Bermudas. A cant name for certain places in London, pri-
vileged againft arrefts, like the Mint in Southwark. Ben,
Jon/on.

Biss, or Betty. A fmall inftroment ufed by houfe-breakers
to force open doors. Bring befs and glym ; bring the inftru-
ment to force the door, and the dark lantern. Small flafca
like thofe for Florence wine, are alfo called betties.

Bess. See Brown Bess.

Bethlehemites. Chriftmas carol fingers. Cant.

Best. To the beft in Chriftendom, i. «• the beft **•• in
Chriftendom ; a health formerly much in vogue.

Bet. A wager^-»To Bet. To lay a wager.

Bbtty Martin. That's my eye, Betty Martin ; an anfwer
to any one that attempts to impofe or humbug.

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Betwattled. Surprifed, confounded, out of one's fenfes ;
alfo bewrayed.

Bever,

B I R

Be vsr. An afternoon's luncheon ; alfo a fine haf; bevers far
making the beft hats*

Beverage. Garnifh money, or money for drink, demanded
of any. one having: a new firit of clothes*

Bible. A boatfwain's great axe. Sea term,

Bible Oath. Suppofed by the vulgar to be more binding
than an oath taken oh the Teftament only, as being the
bigger book, and generally containing both the Old and
New Teftament,

Biddy, or C h i c k -a-bi d d y. A chicken., and figuratively a
young wench.

Bidet* commonly pronounced Bid by, A kind of tub, con*
trived for ladies to wafh themfelves, for which purpofe they
beftride it like a little French poney, or poft-horfe, called in
France bidets.

JBienly. Excellently; She wheedled lb biertly ; Jhe eoaxed
or flattered fo cleverly- Frer/cb*

Bilbo a. A fword. Bilboa in Spain was once, famous for
well-tempered blades: thefe are. quoted by Falftaff, where he N
defcribes the manner in which he lay in the buck-bafket.
Bilboes ; the flocks* Cant.

To Bilk. To cheat. Let us bilk the rattling cove ; let us
cheat the hackney coachman of his fare* Cant. — Bilking a
coachman, a box-keeper, and a poor whore, were formerly,
among men of the town, thought gallant aclions.

Bill op Sale. A widow's weeds. Sec House to let.

Billincsgate Languagb. Foul language, or abufe. Bik
lingfgate is the market where the fifti-women aflemble to pur*
chafe fifh ; and where, in their dealings and dtfputes, they
are fomewhat apt to leave decency and good manners a little
on the left hand.

Binc. Togo. C<7/7/.— Bing avaft 5 get you gone. Binged
avail: in a darkmans ; dole away in the night. Bing we, ft
Rumeville ; (ball we go to London ?

Bin go. Brandy or other fpirituous liquor. Cant,

Bingo Boy. A dram drinker. Cant,

Bingo Mort. A female dram drinker. Cant,

Binnacle Word. A fine or affe&ed word, which failors
jeejingly offer to chalk up on the binnacle.

Bi RD and Baby. The fign of the eagle and child.

Bird-witted. Inconfiderate, thoughtlefs, eafily impofed on.

BiRps

B I T

Birds of a Feather. Rogues of the fame gang.

Birth Day Suit. He was in his birth-day fuit, that is,
ftark naked.

Bishop. A mixture of wine and water, into which is put a
roafted orange. Alfo one of the largeft of Mrs. Philips's
purfes, ufed to contain the others.

Bishoped, or To bishop. A term among horfe-dealers, for
burning the mark into a horfe's tooth, after he has loft it by
*ge ; by bifhoping, a horfe is made to appear younger than
he is. It is a common faying of milk that is burnt to, that
the bifhop has fet his foot in it. Formerly, when a bifhop
patted through a village, all the inhabitants ran out of their
noufes to folicit his blefiing, even leaving their milk, &c. on
the fire, to take its chance ; which, when burnt to, was faid
to be'bimoped.

Bit. Money. He grappled the cull's bit ; he feized the man's
money. A bit is alfo the fmalkft current coin in Jamaica,
equal to about fixpence fterling.

BjtCH. A fhe dog, or doggefs; the mod offenfive appellation
that can be given to an Englifh woman, even more provoking
than that of whore, as may be gathered from the regular Bil-
linfgate or St. Giles's anfwer— " I may be a whore, but can't
be a bitch."

To Bitch. To yield, or give up an attempt through fear. To
ftand bitch ; to make tea, or do the honours of the tea-table,
performing a female part : bitch there (landing for woman,
fpecies for genus.

Bitch Boo bt» A country wench. Military term.

Bite. A cheat ; alfo a woman's privities. The cull wapt
the raort's bite; the fellow enjoyed the wench heartily.
Cant.

to Bite. To over-reach, or impofe ; alfo to fteal. Canu— •
Biting was once efteeined a kind of wit, fimilar to the hum-
bug. An inftance of it is given in the Spectator : A man
under fentence of death having fold his body to a furgeon
rather below the market price, on receiving the money, cried,
A bite ! I am to be hanged in chains. — To bite the roger ;
to fteal a portmanteau. To bite the wiper ; to fteal a hand-
kerchief. To bite on the bridle ; to be pinched or 1 reduced
to difficulties. Hark ye, friend, whether do they bite in the
collar or the cod-piece. Water <wit to anglers.

Biter. A wench whofe * M * is ready to bite her a-fe ; a
Jafciviqus, rampant wench*

Blab,

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B L A

Blab; A tell-tale, or one incapable of keeping a fecret.
Black and white. In writing. I have it in black and
• white ; I have written evidence.

Black Art. The art of picking a lock. Cant,

Black A-se. A copper ox kettle. The pot calls the kettle
black a-fe. Cant.

Black Book. He is down in the black book, i. e. has a
(lain in his character. A black book is kept in raoft regi-
ments, wherein the names of all perfons fentenced to punifh-
ment are recorded.

Black Box. A lawyer. CanU

Black Eye. We gave the bottle a black eye, i. e. drank it
almoft up. He cannot fay black is the white of my eye 5 he
cannot point out a blot in my character*

Black Fly- The greateft drawback on the farmer is the
black fly, i. e. the parfon who takes tithe of the harveft.

Black-guard. A fliabby, dirty fellow; a term faid to be
derived from a number of dirty, tattered, and rogniih boys,
who attended at the Horfe Guards^ and Parade in St. James's
Park, to black the boots and (hoes of the foldiers, or to do
any other dirty offices. Thefe, from their conftant attend-
ance about the time of guard mounting, were nick-named the
' black-guards.

Black Jack* A jug to drink out of, made of jacked lea-
ther.

Black Joke. A popular tone to a fong, having for the bur-
den, " Her black joke and belly fo white :" figuratively
the black joke fignifies the monofyllable. $ee Monosyl-
lable.

Black Indies* Newcaftle upon Tyne, whofe rich coal-mines
prove an Indies to the proprietors.

Black Legs. A gambler or (harper on the turf or in the
cock-pit : fo called, perhaps, from their appearing generally
in boots ; or elfe from game-cocks, whofe legs are always
(black.

Black Monday. The firft Monday after the fchool-boyt
holidays, or breaking up, when they are to go to fchool, and
produce or repeat the talks fet them.

Black Muns.,/ Hoods and fcarves of alamode luteftring.

Black Psalm. To fing the black pfalm ; to cry ; a faying
ufed to children*

D Black

si

B L I

Black Spy. The Devil.

Black Strap. Bene Carlo wine ; alfo port. A talk of la-
bour impofed on foldiers at Gibraltar, as a punifhment for
fmall offences.

Blank. To look' blank; to appear disappointed or con*
founded.

Blarney. He has licked the Blarney ftone ; he deals in the
wonderful, or tips us the traveller. The blarney ftone is a
triangular ftone on the very top of an ancient caftle of that
name, in the county of Cork in Ireland, extremely difficult
of accefs; fo that to have afcended to it, was confidered as a
proof of perfeverance, courage, and agility, whereof many are
fuppofed to claim the honour, who never achieved the ad,
venture : and to tip the blarney, is figuratively ufed for tell-
ing a marvellous ftory, or falfity j and alfo fometimes to ex-
prefs flattery. Irijb.

A blasted Fellow or Brimstone. An abandoned rogue
or proftitute, Catif.

To Blast. To curfe,

Blater. A Calf. Cant*

Bleached Mort. A fair-complexioned wench.

Bleaters, Thofe cheated by Jack in 3 box. Cant.~ $e«
Jack in a Box.

.Bleating Cheat. A flieep. Cant.

Bleating Rig. Sheep ftealing. Cant.

Bleeding Cully. One who parts eafily with his money, or
bleeds freely.

Bleeding new. A metaphor bprrowed from filh, which will
not bleed when ftale.

Blessing. A fmall quantity over and above the meafure*
ufually given by huckfters dealing in peas, beans, and other
vegetables.

Blew John. Afh or after- wort.

"Blind. A feint, pretence, or (hi ft.

Blind Cheeks. The breech. Bufs blind cheeks; kifs mine
a-fe. "

Blind Excuse. A poor or infufficient excufe. A blind ale-
houfe, lane, or alley ; an obfeure, or little-known or fre-
quented ale-houfe, lane, or alley.

Jlind Harpers. Beggars counterfeiting blindnefs, playing
on fiddles, &c,

Blino*

B L U

Blindman*s Buff. A play ufcd by children, where one;

being blinded by a handkerchief bound over his eyes* at*
, tempts to feize any one of the company, who all endeavour

to avoid him; the perfon caught muft be blinded in his

Head.

Blin dman's Holiday* Night, darknefs.

Block Houses. Prifons, houfes of cdrre&ion, &c«

Blood*, A riotous diforderly fellow*

Blood for Blood. A term ufed by tradefmen for bartering
the different commodities in which they deal. Thus a hatter
fumifliing a hofier with a hat, and taking payment in (lock-
ings, is laid to deal blood for blood*

Bloody Back. A jeering appellation tor a foldier, alluding
to his fcarlet coat*

Bloss or Blow en* The pretended wife of a bully, or fhop-
Hfter. 'Cant.

To Blot tub Skrip and jark it. To ftand engaged or
bound for any one. Cant*

Blow. He has bit the blow, i. e. he has flolen the goods.'
Cant*

Blower or Blowen. A miflrefs or whore of a gentleman of
the fcamp. . ' - _

To Blow the Grounsils. To lie with a woman ori the
floor* Cant*

To Blow the Gab. To confefs, or impeach a confederate*

CanU

Blow-up. A difcovery, or the confufion occafioned by one.

A Blowse, or Blows Ad blla. A woman whofe hair i&
di (he veiled, and hanging about her face; a flattern.

Blubber. The mouth.— I have flopped the cull's blubber ; I
have flopped the fellow's mouth \ meant either by gagging
or murdering him.

To Blubber. To cry.

To sport Blubber. Said of a large coarfe woman, who
expofes her bofom.

Blubber Cheers. Large flaccid cheeks, hanging like the
fat or blubber of a whale.

Blub. To look blue ; to be confounded, terrified, or disap-
pointed. Blue as a razor ; perhaps, blue as azure*

Blue Boar. A venereal bubo.

D a Blub

BOD

Blui ' Dbvus. Lewtyiiits*

Blub Flag. He hat hefted the blue flag; he has con>
meoeed publican, or taken a public houfe, an allufion to
the Woe aprons worn by publicans* See Admiral or the
Blui.

Bluianj>Oran<ie« This fociety, ftyling themferves Loyal
and Friendly, met, 174X1 at Kouli Khan's head, Leicefter-
fields.

Blue Pigbqns. Thieves who Seal lead off houfes and
churches* CmnU

Blue Plumb. A bullet*— -Surfeited with a blue plumbs
wounded with a bullet. A fortment of George R— -'s blue
plumbs ; a volley of ball, (hot front foldiers' firelocks*

Blub Skin. A perfon begotten on a black woman by a white
man. One of the blue fquadron ; any one having a crofs of
the black breed} or, as it is termed, a Eck of the tar brufh.

Blue Tape, or Scr Blub. Gin.

Bluff.. Fierce, furly. He looked as bluff as bull beet

B l u f f b a . An inn-keeper. Cauu

Blundbrbu ss. A fhort gun, with a wide bore, for carrying
flags 3 alfo a ftupid, blundering fellow.

Blunt. Money- Cant.

To Slustbiu To talk big, to he&or or bully.

Boarding School. Bridewell, Newgate, or any other pri-
fon, Of hoofe of eoireftibiw.

Bob. A (hoplifter's awffant, or one that receives and carries
off ffolen goods. AB is bob 5 all is fafc. C**/.

Bobbed. Cheated, tricked, difappointedt

Bobbish. Smart, clever, fpruce. <

Bob-stay. A rope which holds the bowrprit to the Item or
cutwater. Figuratively, the frenum of a man's yard.

Bob Tail, A lewd woman, or one that plays with her taif;
alfo an impotent man, or an eunuch. Tag, rag, and bob-
tail ; a mob of all forts of low people. To (hut one's bob ;
to move off, or go away. To Dear a bob; to join in chorus
with any fingers*. Alfo a term ufed by the fellers of game,,
for a partridge.

Bodies. The foot guards, or king's body guards*

Body S natch ers. Bum bailiffs.

Boot of Divinity bound in Black Calf. A parfon*.

Boe

BOO

Bog Lands*. An Iriftiman; Ireland being famous for it* -
large bogs, which furnilh the chief fuel in many parts of that
kingdom* "^ .

Boc Trotter. The fame.

Boo House. The necefTary houfe.

Bog Latin. Barbarous Latin. Irijb* — See Dog Latin and
Apothecaries Latin.

Bogy. A Ik bogy, i. e. afk mine a-fe. Sea writ*

Boh. Said to be the name of a Danifh general, who to terri-
fied his opponent Fob, that he caufed him to bewray himfelf.
Whence, when we fmell a ftink, it is cuftomary to exclaim,
Fob! i.e. I fmell general Foh. He cannot fay Boh to a
goofe ; i.e. he is a cowardly of fheepiflv fellow.

Bold.. Bold as a miller's flurt, which every day takes a rogue
by the collar*

Bolt. A blunt arrow.

Bolt Upright. As ere&, or (Irak up, as an arrow fet on
its end.

To Bolt. To run fuddenly out of one's houfe, or hiding-
place, through fear ; a term borrowed from a rabbit-warren,
where the rabbits are made to bolt, by fending ferrets into
their burrows : we fet the houfe on fire, and made him bolt.
To bolt, alfo means to fwallow meat without chewing : the
farmers' fervants in Kent are famous for boking large quan-
tities of pickled pork.

Bolter op White Friars, or the Mint. One that peep*
out, but dares not venture abroad for fear of artefta. .

*

Bone Box. The mouth. Shut your bone box; fhut your
mouth. /

Bone Picker. A footman.

Boned. Seized, apprehended, taken up by aconftable. Cant-

Bolus. * A nick name for an apothecary.

Bone Setter. A hard- trotting horfe.

Booby, or Dog Booby. An awkward lout, clodhopper, or
country fellow. See Clodhopper and Lout.— A bitch
booby ; a country wench.

Booby Hutch. A one-horfe chaife, noddy, buggy, or
leathern bottle.

Book-keeper* One who never returns borrowed books. Out
of one's books ; out of one's favour*

Boot

£ O U

Boot Catcher. The fervant at an inn whofe bufmefs it If
to clean the boots of the guefls.

Boots. The youngeft officer in a regimental mefs, whofe duty
it is to Ik ink, that is, to ftir the fire, fnufF the candles, ami
ring the bell. See Skink. — To ride in any one's old boots;
to marry or keep his caft-ofF miftrefs.

Booty. To play booty 5 cheating play, where the player pur-
pofely avoids winning.

Bo-peep. One who fometimes hides himfelf, and fometimes
appears publicly abroad, is faid to play at bb-peep. Alio
one who lies perdue, or on the watch.

Borachio. A (kin for holding wine, commonly a goat's;
alio a nick name for a drunkard. *

Borde. A (hilling. Ahalfborde; fixpence*

Bordello. A bawdy houfe.

^ Bore* A tedious, troublefome man or woman, one who bores
the ears of his hearers with an uninterefting tale ; a term much
in fafhion about the years 1 780 and 1 781.

Born under a Threepenny Halfpenny Planet, never
to be worth a Groat. Said of any perfon remarkably
unfuccefsful in his attempts or profeffion.

Botch* A nick name for a taylor.

Bothered* or Both-eared. Talked to at both ears by dif-
ferent perfons at the fame time, confounded, confufed. Irijb
fhrafe.

Botherams. A convivial fociety.

Bottle-headed. Void of wit.

Bottom. A polite term for the pofteriors. Alfo, in the
/porting fenfe, ftrength and fpirits to fupport fatigue ; as, a
bottomed horfe. Among bruifcrs it is ufed to expref* a
hardy fellow who will bear a good beating. The bottom of
a woman's tu quoque ; the crown of her head.

Bottomless Pit. Thejnonofyllable.

Boughs. He is up in the boughs ; he is in a pafflon.

To Bounce. To brag or hettor ; alfo to tell an improbable
ftory.

Bou ncer. A large man or woman ; alfo a great lie.

Bouncing Cheat. A bottle ; from the cxplofion in drawing
the cork. Cant.

Boung. A purfe. Cant.

Bou no

B R I

Baa v. A vicar of Bray ; one who frequently changes hit prin-
ciples, always tiding with the ftrongeft party : an allufion to
a vicar of Bray, in Berkfhire, commemorated in a well-
known ballad for the pliability of his confidence.

Brazen-faced. Bold-faced* Jhamelefs* impudent.

Breap and Butter Fashion. One flice upon the other.
John and his maid were caught lying bread and butter
lafhion. — To quarrel with one's bread and butter ; to aft
contrary to one's intcreft. To know on which fide one's
bread is buttered ; to know one's intereft, or what is heft for
one* It is no bread and butter of mine; I have no bufinefs
with it ; or rather, I won't intermeddle, becaufe I (hall get
nothing by it.

Bread and Butter Warehousb. Ranelagh.

Break-teeth Words. Hard words, difficult to pro*
notmce.

Breaking Shins. Borrowing money ; perhaps from the figu-
rative operation being, like tnc real one, extremely difagree-
able to the patient.

Bread. Employment. Out of bread j out of employment.
In bad bread ; in a difagreeable fcrape, or fituation.

Bread Basket. The ftomach; a term ufed by boxers. I
took him a punch in his bread bafket ; i. e. I gave him a
Mow in the ftomach*

Breast Fleet. He or the belongs to the breaft fleet ; L e. is
a Roman catholic ; an appellation derived from their cuftom
of beating their breafts in the confeffion of their fins.

Br e ic h ss . To wear the breeches ; a woman who governs her
hufband is faid to wear the breeches.

Breeches Bible. An edition of the bible printed in 15989
wherein it is faid that Adam and Eve fewed fig-leaves to*
gether, and made themfr Ives breeches.

Breeze. To raife a breeze ; to kick up a duft or breed a dis-
turbance.

Bridge. To make a bridge of any one's no r e; to pulh the
bottle paft him, fo as to deprive him of his turn of filling his
glafs ; to pafs one over. »

Br im. (Abbreviation of Brimftone.) An abandoned woman ;
perhaps originally only a paffionatc or irafcible woman, com-
pared to brimftone for its inflammability.

Brisket Beater. A Roman catholic. See Breast Fleet,
and Craw Thumper.

Bristol

/ /

BUB

Bristol Milk. A Spanifh wine called fherry, ^uch drank
at that place, particularly in the morning.

Broganisr. One who has a ftrong Irifh pronunciation or
accent.

Brogue. A particular kind of fhoe* without a heel, worn in
Ireland, and figuratively ufed to fignify the Irifh accent*

("Blade. A foldier.
I Buskin. A player.
I Bung. A brewer.

BaOTBEROFTHE^ g "' A *&£" hw «

< 1 VjrUSSET. J\ pimp.

An author.
A fiddler. v

A coachman.

Brother Starling. One who lies with the fame woman,
that is, builds in the fame neft.

Broughtonian, A boxer: a difciple of Broughton, who
was a beef-eater, and once the bell boxer of his day.

Brown Bess. A foldier's firelock. To hug brown Befs ; to
carry a firelock, or ferve as a private foldier.

Brown George. An ammunition loaf.

Brown Madam, or Muss Brown. The monoiyllable.

Brown Study. $aidof one abfent, in a reverie, or thought*
fill..

Bruiser.. A boxer, one flcilled in the art of boxing ; alfo an
inferior workman among chafers.

Bruising, or rather Brewising, the Bed. Bewraying the
bed ; from

Brewes, or Browes. The fat fcum front the pot in which
falted £eef is boiled.

To Brush. To run away. Let us buy a brufh and lope ;
. let us go away or off. To have a brufh with a woman ;
to lie with her. To have a brufh with a man ; to fight with
Trim.

Brushsr. A bumper, a full glafs. See Bumper.

Bub. Strong beer.

Bubber. A drinking bewl ,- alfo a great drinker; a thief
that fteals plate from public houfes. Cant,

The Bubble. The party cheated, perhaps from his being like
an air Rubble, filled with words, which are only wind, in,
(lead of real property.

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B U f

To Bubble. To cheat.

To Bar "the Bubble, To except againft the general rule,
that he who lays the odds mud always be adjudged the lofer ;
this is reftri&ed to betts laid for liquor.

Bubbly Jock. A turkey cock. Scotch.

Bubble and Squeak. Beef and cabbage fried together. It
is fo called from its bubbling up and fqueaking whilft ove?
the lire.

Bu b b • The venereal difeafe.

Buck. A blind horfe ; alfo a gay debauchee.

To run a Buck* To poll a bad vote at an election. Irjfi
term.

Buck Bail. Bail given by a (harper for one of the gang.

A Buck of the first Head. One who in debauchery
furpaffes the reft of his companions, a blood or choice fpirit.
There are in London divers lodges or focieties of Bucks,
formed in imitation of the Free Mafons : one was held at the
Rofe, in Monkwell-ftreet, about the year 1 7 50. The prefi-
dent is ftyled the Grand Buck.— A buck fometimes flgnifiea
a cuckold.

Buck's Fa c b . A cuckold.

Buck Fitch. A lecherous old fellow.

«

Buckeen. A bully. Irijh.
Bucket. To kick the bucket; to die.

Buckinger's Boot. The monofyllable* Matthew Buck?
inger was bom without hands and legs ; notwithstanding
which he drew coats of arms very neatly, and Could write
the Lord's Prayer within the compafs of a milling : he was,
married to a tallijandfome woman* and traverfed the country 1
fhewing himfelf for money.

Budge, or Sneaking Budge. One that flips into houfes*in
the'dark, to Ileal cloaks or other clothes. Alfo lambs' fuj
formerly ufed for doctors' robes, whence they were calle4
budge doctors. Standing budge ; a thief's fcout or fpy.

To Budge. To move, or quit one's ftation. Don't budge
from hence ; i. e. don't move from hence, day here.

Budget. A wallet. To open the budget; a term ufed to,
fignify the notification of the taxes required by the minifies
for the expences of the enfuing year ; as, To-morrow the
minifter will go to the houfe, and open the budget.

Jufe. A dog, Bufe'e nob ; a dog's head. Cam.

Buf*

b U L

JJufb Nabber. A dog dealer. Cant. •

Buff. All in buff; ftript to the fkin, ftark naked, -

Buff. To ftand buff; to ftand the brunt.

Buffer. One that Heals and kills horfes and dogs for their
fkins ; alfo an inn-keeper : in Ireland it fignifies a boxer*

Buffle-he aded. Confufed, ftupid.

Bug; A nick name given by the Irifti to Englifhmen ; bugs
having, as it is faid, been introduced into Ireland by the
Englifh.

To Bug. A cant word among journeymen hatters, fignify-
ing the exchanging fome of the deareft materials of which a
hat is made for others of left value. Hats are compofed of
the furs and wools of divers animals, among which is a fmall
|x>rtion of bevers* fur. Bugging, is Healing the bever, an<J
fubftituting in lieu thereof an equal weight of fome cheaper
ingredient.— Bailiffs who take money to poftpone or refrain*
the ferving of a writ, ate faid to bug the writ.

.Bug-HuntEr. An upholfterer.

Bugaboo. Arfcare-babe, or bully-beggar.

Bugaroch. Comely, handfome; Irijb*

Buggy. A one-horfe chaife.

.Bug her. A little yelping dog.

Bulk and File. Two pickpockets; the bulk jollies the
party to be robbed* and the file does the bufinefs.

BulkEr. One who lodges all night on a bulk or projection
before old-fafhioned (hop-windows.

Bull. An Exchange Alley term for one who buy3 ftock on
fpeculation for time, i. e. agrees with the feller, called a
Bear, to take a certain fum of ftock at a future day, at a
ftated price : if at that day ftock fetches more than the price
agreed on, he receives the difference; if it falls or is cheaper,
he either pays it, or becomes a lame duck, and waddles out
of the Alley. See Lame Duck and Bear.

Bull. A blunder ; from one Obadiah Bull, a blundering
lawyer of London, who lived in the reign of Henry VII. :
by a bull, is now always meant a blunder made by an Irifh-
man. A bull was alfo the name of falfe hair formerly much
worn by wonien. To look like bull beef, or as bluff as bull
beef ; to look fierce or furly. Town bull, a great whore-
mafter. :

Bull Beggar, or Bully Beggar. An imaginary being

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BUM

with which children arc threatened by fervants and nurfes,
like raw head and bloody bones.

Bull Calf, A great hulkey or clumfy fellow. Sec Hul-

KEY,

B v l l C h i n. A fat chubby child.

Bull Dogs. Piilols.

Bull's Eye. A crown piece.

Bull's Feather. A horn: he wears the bull's feather; he
is a cuckold. .

To bullock. To hec"lor, bounce, or bully.

Bully. A cowardly fellow, who gi ves him felf airs of great
bravery. A bully huff* cap ; a he&or. SccHector.

Bully Back. A bully to a bawdy-houfe ; one who is keptt
in pay, to oblige the frequenters of the houfe to fubmit to
the impofitions of the mother abbefs, or bawd; and who alfo
fome times pretends to be the hufband of one of the ladies,
and under that pretence extorts money from greenhorns, or
ignorant young men, whom he finds with her. See Gbl een*'
horn.

Bully Cock. One who foments quarrels in order to rob the
perfons quarrelling.

BullyRuffians. Highwaymen who attack paflerige* y with
oaths and imprecations*

Bully Trap. A brave man with a mild or effeminate ap*
pearance, by whom bullies are frequently taken in.

Bum. The breech, or backfide.

Sum Bailiff. A flierifF's officer, who arrefts debtors; fo
called perhaps from following his prey, and being at tbeii
bums, or, as the vulgar phrafe is, hard at their a-fes. Black-
done fays, it is a corruption of bound bailiff, from their being

' obliged to give bond for their good behaviour.

Bum Br usher. A fchoofmafter.

Bum Boat. A boat attending fhips to retail greens, drams,
&c. commonly rowed by a woman ; a kind of floating
chandler's (hop.

Bum Fodder. Soft paper for the neceffary houfe or tor-
checul.

Bumfiddle. The backfide, the breech. See Ars Musica.

Bumbo. Brandy, water, and fugar; alfo the negro name for
the private parts of a woman.

$umki#. A raw country fellow.

Bummed*

BUR

Bummed. Arretted.

Bumper. A full glafs; in all likelihood from its convexity
or bump at the top : fome derive it from a full glafs former-
ly drunk to the health of the pope—- au bon fere.

Bumpino. A ceremony performed on boys perambulating the
bounds of the parifh on Whit-monday ; when they have their
pofteriors bumped againft the ftones marking the boundaries,
in order to fix them in their memory.

j Bun. A common name for a rabbit, alfo for the monofylla-
* ble. To touch bun for luck ; a practice observed among

failors going on a cruize.

Bundling. A man and woman fleeping in the fame bed, he
with his fmall clothes, and (he with her petticoats on ; an ex-
pedient praclifed in America on a. fcarcity of beds, where,
on fuch an occafion, hufbands and parents frequently per-
mitted travellers to bundle with their wives and daughters.

Bung upwards. Said of a perfon lying on his face

Bung your Eye. Drink a dram ; ftrittly fpeaking, to drink
till one's eye is bunged up or clofed.

Bunt. An apron.

To Bunt. To run againft, or joftle.

Bunter. A low dirty proftitute, half whore and half beggar;

Bunt lings. Petticoats. Cant,

Burn Crust. A jocular name for a baker;

Burn the Ke n. Strollers living in an alehoufe without pay-
ing their quarters, are faid to burn the ken. Cant.

Burning the Parade. Warning more men for a guard
than were neceffary, and excufing the fupernumeraries for
money. This was a practice formerly winked at in moft
garrifons, and was a very confiderable perquiiite to the adju-
tants and ferjeant majors ; the pretence for it was, to pur-
chafe coal and candle for the guard, whence it was called
burning the parade.

, Burning Shame. A lighted candle (luck into the parts of
a woman, certainly not intended' by nature for a candleftick.

.Burner. He is no burner of navigable rivers; i.e. he is no
conjurer, or man of extraordinary abilities; or rather, he is
but a fimple fellow. See Thames.

Burnt. Poxed or clapped. He was fent out a facrifice, and
came home a burnt offering ; a faying of feamen who have
caught the venereal difeafe abroad. He has burnt his fingers;
he has fuffered by meddling.

Burr,

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Burr. A hanger on, or dependant; an allufion to the field
burrs, which are not eafily got rid of. Alfo the Northum-
brian pronunciation : the people of that country, but chiefly
about Newcaftle and Morpeth, are faid to have a burr in their
throats, particularly called the Newcaftle burr.

Bushel B u b b y * A full-breafted woman*

Busk. A piece of whalebone or ivory, formerly worn by
women, to ftiffen the fore part of their llays : hence the toaft
— Both ends of the bulk.

Buss Beggar. An old fuperannuated fumbler, whom none'
but beggars will fuffer to kifs them.

Bus- nappe r. A conftable. Cant.

Bus-napper's Kenchin. A watchman. Cant.

Bust. As bufy as the devil in a high wind ; as bufy as a heri
with one chick.

Butcher. k A jocular exclamation ufed at fea, or by foldiers
on a march, when one of their comrades falls down ; and
means — Butcher! butcher! where are you? here is a calf
that has the (laggers > and wants bleeding. *

Butcher's Dog. To be like a butcher's dog, i.e. lie by the
beef without touching it ; a fimile often applicable to married
men.

Butcher's Meat. Meat taken up on truft, which continues
the butcher's till paid for.

Butcher's Horse. That muft have been a butcher's horfe*
by his carrying a calf fo well ; a vulgar joke on an awkward
rider.

. Butt. A dependant, poor relation, or fimpleton, on whom all
kinds of practical jokes are played off; and who ferves as a
butt for all the (hafts of wit and ridicule*

Butter. A butter; in inch of butter, that commodity being
fold at Cambridge by the yard, in rolls of about an inch dia-
meter. The word is ufed plurally, as— Send me a roll and
two butters.

Butter Box. A Dutchman, from the great quantity of butter
eaten by the people, of that country.

To Butter a Bet. To double or treble it.

Buttered Bun. One lying with a woman that has juft lain
with another man, is faid to have a buttered bun.

Butter Teeth. Large broad fore teeth.

Butter and Eggs Trot. A kind of fhort jogg trot, fuch
as is ufed by women going to market, with butter and eggs*

— Sh©

CAB

*— She looks as if butter would not melt In her mouth, yet J
warrant you cheefe would not choak her ; a faying of a de*
mure-looking woman, of fufoetted character. Don't make
butter dear; a gird at the patient angler.

Buttock. A whore. Cant.

Buttock Broker, A bawd, or matehonaker. Cant,

Buttock Ball. The amorous congrefs. Cant*

Buttock and File. A common whore and a pickpocket.
Cant.

Buttock and Twang, or A Down Buttock and Sham
- Fijle. A common whore, but no pickpocket.

Button. A bad (hilling, among coiners. His a-fe makes
buttons ; he is ready to bewray himfelf through fear. Cant*

Puzman. A pickpocket. Cant f

Buzz a. To buzza one, is to challenge him to pour out all
the wine in the bottle into his glafs, undertaking to drink
it, fhould it prove more than the glafs will hold : it is
commonly faid to one who hefitates to empty a bottle that
is nearly out. Some derive it from bou%e all, i. e. drink it
all.

Buzzard. A fimple fellow. A blind buzzard; a purblind
man or woman. .

JBve Blow. A baftard, . v

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CAB

ABALLARIANS. The very honourable order of Ca-
ballarians was held at the Magpyc Tavern, without Bilhopf-
gate.

Cabbage.^ doth, fluff, or filk purloined by taylors from
their employers, which they depofit in a place called belly or
their eye : from the firft, when taxed with their knavery, they
equivocally fwear, that if they have taken any, they wifti
they may find it in bell; or, alluding to the fecond, proteft,
$at what they have oyer and above is not more than they

coujjj

CAM

conld put in their eye. — When the fcrotnm is relaxed or whif-
fled, it is faid they will not cabbage,

Cacafeugo. A ftute-fire, a furious braggadocio or bully
huff.

j Cackle. To blab, or difcover fecrets. The cull is leaky,
and cackles ; the rogue tells all* Cant. — See Leaky,

Cackle rs Ken, A hen rooft. Cant.

Cackling Cheats. Fowls* Cant.

Cackling Farts. Eggs. Cant,

Caff an. Cheefe. Cant 9

Cacg. To cagg ; a military term ufed by the private- foldiers*
ftgnifying a folemn vow or refolution not to get drunk for a
certain time ; or, as the term is, till their cagg is out 5 which
vow is commonly obferved with the drifted exa&nefs. Ex*
I have cagg'd myfelf for fix months. Excufe me this time,
and I will ca^g myfelf for a year. This term is alfo ufed in
the fame fenfe among the common people of Scotland* where
it is performed with divers ceremonies,

Cagg Maggs. Old Lincolnshire geefe, which having been
plucked ten or twelve years, are fent up to London to feail
fhc cockneys.

Cake, or Cakey. A foolifh fellow.

Calf -skim Fiddle. A drum.— To fmack calf's (kin; tokif*
the book in taking an oath* It is held by the St. Giles's
cafuifts, that by killing one's thumb inftead of fmacking calf's

- (kin, the guilt of taking a falfe oath is avoided*

Calves. His calves are gone tografs; a faying of a man
with {lender legs without calves. Veal will be cheap* calves
fall ; faid of a man whofe calves fall away.

Calves Head Club. A cjub iaftituted by the Independents
and Prefbyterians, to commemorate the decapitation of King
Charles I* Their chief fare was calves heads ; and they drank
their wine and ale out of calves fculls.

Cali bogus. Rum and fpruce beer, an American beverage*

Calle. A cloak or gown. Cant.

Cambridge Fortune. A wind -mill and a water-mill* ufed
to fignify a woman without any but perfonal endowments*

Cambridge Oak. A willow,

Camerade. A chamber fellow; a Spanifh military term.
Soldiers were in that country divided into chambers, five
men making a chamber, whence it was generally ufed to fig-
pi fy contfpanion*

Camesa,

CAP

C AMES A. A fhirt or fhift. Canty Sfanijh.

Camp Candlestick. A bottle, or fold ier's bayonet.

Campbell's Academy. The hulks or lighters, on board of t
which felons are condemned to hard labour. Mr. Campbell
was the firft director of them. See Academy and Float-
ing Academv.

Canary Bird. A jail bird, a perfon ufed to be kept in a cage ;
alfo, in the canting fenfe, . guineas*

Candlesticks. Bad, fmall, or untunable bells. Hark! how
the candlefticks rattle. v

Candy. Drunk, lrijb.

Cane. To lay Cane upon Abel ; to beat any one with a cane
or (tick.

. Cakk. Dumb.

Canniken* A fmall can; alfo, in the canting fenfe, the
plague.

Cant. An riypocrite, a double-tongued pallavering fellow.
See Pallaver.

Cant.. To cant ; to tofe or throw : as* Cant a Aug into your
bread room ; drink a dram. Sea <wit.

Canticle. A parifh clerk.

Canting. Preaching with a whining, aflecled tone, perhaps
a corruption of chaunting ; fome derive it from Andrew
Cant, a famous Scotch preacher, who ufed that whining
manner of expreffioru Alfo a kind of gibberifh ufed by
J thieves and gypfies, called like wife pedlars French, the flang,
&c. Sec.

Canters, or The* Canting Crew. Thieves, beggars, and
gypfies, or any others ufing the canting lingo. See Lingo*

Canterbury Story. A long roundabout tale. .

To Cap. To take one's oath. I will cap downright ; I will
fwear home. Cant.

To Cap. To take off one's hat or cap. To cap the quadrangle ;
a lefTon of humility, or rather fervility, taught undergra-
duates at the univerfity, where they are obliged to crofs the
area of the college cap in hand, in reverence to the Fellows
who fometimes walk there. The fam6 ceremony 13 obferved
on coming on the quarter deck of (hips of war, although no
^ officer fhould be on it.

Cap Acquaintance. Perfons flightly acquainted, or only
fo far as mutually to falute with the hat on meeting. A
woman who endeavours to attract the notice of any particular
man, is faid to fet her cap at him.

- F Caper

CAR

Caper Merchant. A dancing maftcrj or hop merchant r
marchand dcs capriolles. French term. — To cut capers j to
leap or jump in dancing. See Hop Merchant.

Capping Verses. Repeating Latin verfes in turn, beginning
with the letter With which the laft fpeaker left oat

Capon. A caftrated cock, alfo an eunuch.

Capricornified. Cuckolded, hornified.

Capsize. To overturn or reverfe. He took his broth till he
capfized ; he drank till he fell out of his chair. Sea term*

Captain. Led captain; an humble dependant in a great
family, who for a precarious fubfiftence, and dijlant hopes of
preferment, fufFers every kind of indignity, and Is the butt
of every fpecies of joke or ill-humour. The fmall provifion
made for officers of the army and navy in time of peace,
obliges many in both fervices to occupy this wretched Na-
tion. The idea of the appellation is taken from a led
horfe, many -of which for magnificence appear in the retinues
of great perfonages on folemn occaiions, fuch as procef-
fions, &c.

The Captain is comb, or at home. The catamenia are
come down.

Captain Copperxhorne's Crew. AH officers; a faying
' of a company where every one drives to rule.

Captain Hackum. A bluftering bully.

Captain Lieutenant. Meat between veal and beef, the
flefti of an old calf; a military fimile, drawn from the officer
of that denomination, who has only the pay of a lieutenant,
with the rank of captain ; and fo is not entirely one or the
other, but between both.

Captain Pood. A celebrated matter of a puppet- (hew, in
Ben Jonfon's time, whofe name became a common one to
fignify any of that fraternity.

Captain Queer nabs. A fhabby ill-drefled fellow.

Captain Sharp. A cheating bully, or one in a fet of gam-
blers, whofe office it is to bully any pigeon, who, fufpefting
roguery, refufes ; to pay what he has loft. Cant*

Captai n Tom. The leader of a mob ; alfo the mob itfelf.

Caravan. A large fum of money j alfo, a perfon cheated of
fuch fum. Cant.

Carbuncle Face. A red face, full of pimples.

Cardinal. A cloak in fafhion about the year 1760. The
cardinal is ccme; fee The Captain, &c

CAS

T* Carouse. To drink freely or deep: from the German
word exprefling all out.

Carriers. A fet of rogues who are 'employed to lookout -
and watch upon the roads, at inns, &c. in order to carry
information, to their refpecYwe gangs, of a booty in pro-
fpe&.- '

Carrion Hunter. An undertaker; called alfo a cold
cook, and death hunter. See Cold Cook and Death
Hunter,

Carrots. Red hair.

Carrotty-pate». Ginger-hackled, red-haired. See Gin-
ger-hackled.

Carry Witchet. A fort of conundrum, puzzlewit, or rid-
dle.

Cart. To put the cart before the horfe ; to mention the laft .
part of a ftory firft. To be flogged at the cart's a-fe or tail ;
perfons guilty of petty larceny are frequently fentenced to be
tied to the tail of a cart, and whipped by the common execu-
tioner, for a certain diftance : the degree of feverity in the
execution is left to the difcretion of the executioner, who, it
is faid, has cats of nine tails of all prices.

Carting. The punilhment formerly inflicted on bawds, who
were placed in a tumbrel or cart, and led through a town,
, that their perfons might be known.

Carvel's Ring. The private parts of a woman. Hanj
Carvel, a jealous old doctor, being in bed with his wife,
dreamed that the Devil gave him a ring, which, to long as
he had it on his finger, would prevent his being made a
cuckold : waking, he found he had got his finger the Lord
knows where.

To Cascade. To vomit.

Case. A houfe; perhaps from the Italian cafa. In the cant-
ing lingo it meant ftore or ware houfe, as well as dwelling
houfe. Tout that cafe ; mark or obferve that houfe. It is
all bob, now let's dub the gigg of the cafe ; now the coaft is
clear, let us break open the door of the houfe.

A Case Vrow. A proftitute attached to a particular bawdy-
houfe.

Cash, orCAFFAK. Cheefe. Cant.^-Sez Caffan.

Caster. A cloak. Cant.

Casting up one's Accounts. Vomiting..

F 2 Cat.

CAT

Cat. A common prcftitute. An old cat; a croft old wo-
man.

To Cat, or Shoot the Cat. To vomit from drunken-
nefs.

Cat and Bagpipran Society,, A fociety which met at
their office in the great weftern road : in their fummons,
publifhed in the daily papers, it was added, that the kitten*
1 might come with the eld cat* without being fcratched.

Cat Call. A kind of whittle, chiefly ofed at theatres, to in-
terrupt the attors, and damn a new piece. It derives its
name from one of its founds, which greatly refembles the
modulations of an intriguing boar cat.

Cat- harping Fashion. Drinking crofs-ways, and not, as
ufual, over the left thumb. Sea term.

Cat in Pan. To turn cat in pari, to change fides or par-
ties ; fuppofed originally to have been to turn cate or cake
in pan.

Cat's Foot. To live under the cat's foot ; to be under the
dominion of a wife, hen-pecked. To live like dog and cat ;
fpoken of married perfons who live unhappily together. As
many lives as a cat;, cats, according to vulgar naturalifts,
j have nine lives, that is, one lefs than a woman, «. No more
chance than a cat in hell without claws ; faid of one who
enters into a difpute or quarrel with one greatly above his
match.

Cat Lap. Tea, called alfo fcandal broth. See Scandal
Broth.

•Cat Match. When a rook or cully is engaged ampngft bad
bowlers.

Cat of nine T a i l s. A fcourge compofed of nine firings of
whipcord, each firing having nine knots.

Cat's. Paw. To be made a cat's paw of; to be made a tool
or inflrument to accomplish the purpofe of another : an allu-
fion to the ftory of a monkey, who made afe of a cat's paw to
fcratch a roafted chefnut out of the fire. "*

Cat's Sleep. Counterfeit fleep : cats often counterfeiting
fleep, to decoy their prey near them, and then fuddcnly fpring
on them.

Cat Sticks. Thin legs, compared to flicks with which boys
play at cat. See Trapsticks.

Cat whipping, or Whipping the Cat. A trick often
pra&ifed on ignorant country fellows, vain of their flrength,

by

C H A

Cattlx. Sad cattle ; whores or gypfies. Black cattle ; Ike,
Cant*

Cava ulting School. A bawdy-houfe.

Caudge-pawed. Left-handed.

Cauliflower. A large white wig, fuch as is commonly
worn by the dignified clergy, and was formerly by phyficians.
Alfo the private parts of a woman ; the reafon for which ap-
pellation is given in the following ftory : A woman, who was
giving evidence in a caufe wherein it was neceflary to exprefs
thofe parts, made ufe of the term cauliflower ; for which the
judge on the bench, a peevifli old fellow, reproved her, fay-
ing the might as well call it artichoke. Not fo, my lord,
replied (he ; for an artichoke has a bottom, but a **** and
a cauliflower have none.

Cautions. The four cautions :— I. Beware of a woman be-
fore— II. Beware of a horfe behind. — III. Beware of a cart
fide-ways, — IV. Beware of a pried every way. *

Caw- hand ed, or caw- pawed. Awkward, not dexterous,
ready, or nimble.

Caxon. An old weatherbeaten wig.

Ci ltiberians. A fociety of the brethren of this moft ancient
and honourable brotherhood was held at the Swan and Rum-
mer, Fleet-ftreet.

Cent per Cent; An ufurer.

Chafed. Well beaten; from chauffi> warmed.

Chalkers. Men of wit, in Ireland, who in the night am ufe
themfelves with cutting inoffcnfive paflfengers acrofs the face
with a knife. They are fomewhat like thofe facetious gen-
tlemen fome time ago known in England by the title of
Sweaters and Mohocks.

Ch a l k i n g . The amufement above defcribed.

Chap. A fellow. An odd chap ; a Grange fellow.

Chaperon. The ciciibeo, or gentleman ulher, to a lady ;
from the French.

Chapt. Dry or thirfty.

Charactered, or Lettered. Burnt in the hand. They
have palmed the character upon him ; they have burned him.
in the hand. C«»/.— See Lettered.

Charm. A picklock. Cant,

Ch arren. The fmoke of Charren.— His eyes water from the
fmoke of Charren \ a man of that place coming out of his

houfe

CHI

"houfe weeping, becaufe His wife had beat him, told his neigh-
bours die fmoke had made his eyes water.

Chatter Box, One whofe tongue runs twelve fcorc to the
dozen, a chattering man or woman.

Chatter Broth. Tea. See Cat Lap and Scandal
Broth.

Chatts. Lice: perhaps an abbreviation of chattels, lice be-
ing the chief live flock or chattels of beggars, gypfies, and
die reft of the canting crew. Cant, — Alfo, according to the
canting academy, the gallows.

Chates. The gallows. Cant.

Chaunter Culls. G rub-ftreet w riters, who compofe fongs,
carrols, &c. for ballad-fingers. Cant.

Che a ps ide. He came at it by way of Oheapfide; he gave
little or nothing for it, he bought it cheap.

Ch b ats. Sham ueeves to pat over a dirty Ihirt or fhift. See
Shams.

Cheek by Jowl. Side by fide, hand to fill.

Cheeks. A Ik cheeks near cunnyborough } the repartee of a
St. Giles's fair one, who bids you aft: her backfide, anglict
her a-fe. A like anfwer is current in France :* any one
aflcing the road or diftance to Macon, a city near Lyons,
would be anfwered by a French lady of cafy virtue, * Met-
' tez votre nez dans mon cul, & vous ferrez dans les Faux-
€ bourgs/

Cheese Toaster. A fword.

Chelsea. A village near London, famous for the military
hofjpital. To get Chelfea ; to obtain the benefit of that
hofpital. Dead Chelfea, by G-d ! an exclamation uttered
by a grenadier at Fontenoy, on having his leg carried away
by a cannon-ball.

Chest of Tools. A (hoe-black's brufh and wig, &c. iHjb*.

Cherry-coloured Cat. A black cat, there being black
cherries as well as red. _ ,

Cherubims. Peevifh children, becaufe cherubims and fenu
phims continually do cry.

Cheshire Cat. He grins like a Chefhire cat ; faid of any
one who fhews his teeth and gums in laughing.

Chick-a-biddy, A chicken, fo called to and by little chil-
dren.

Chicken-breasted, Said of a woman with fcarce any
breads.

Chicken

C H (J

Chicken Butcher; A poulterer.

Chicken-hammed. Perfons whofe legl and thighs are bent
or arched outwards*

Chicken-hearted. Fearful, cowardly.

Chicken Nabob. One returned from the Ead Indies with
but a moderate fortune of fifty or fixty thoufand pounds,
a diminutive nabob : a term borrowed from the chicken
turtle.

Child. To eat a child ; to partake of a treat given to the
parifh officers, in part of commutation for a baftard child :
the common price was formerly ten pounds and a grcafy
chin. See Greasy Chin.

Chimney Chops* An abufive appellation for a negro.

Chink. Money.

Chip. A child. A chip of the dd block; a child who
either in perfon or fentimente refembles its father or
mother.

Chips. A nick name for a carpenter.

Chirping merry. Exhilarated with liquor. Chirping glafs ;
a cheerful glafs, that makes the company chirp like birds in
fpring.

Ch i t. An infant or baby.

Chitterlins. The bowels. There is a rumpus among my
chitterlins ; i. e. I have the colic.

Chitty-faced. Baby-faced ; faid of one who has a childifli
look.

Chive, or Chife. A knife, file, or faw. To chive the dar-
bies ; to file off the irons or fetters. To chive the boungs of
the frows ; to cut off women's pockets.

Chivey. I gave him a good chivey ; I gave him a hearty
fcolding.

Chiving Lay. Cutting the braces of coaches behind, qnr
which the coachman quitting the box, an accomplice robs
the boot ; alfo, formerly, cutting' the back of the coach to
ileal the fine large wigs then worn.

Choak. Choak away, the churchyard's near; a jocular fay-
ing to a perfon taken with a violent fit of coughing, or who
has fwal lowed any thing, as it is called the wrong way.
Choak,, chicken, more, are hatching ; a like cqnfolation.

Choak Pear. Figuratively, an unanfwerable objection : alfo
a machine formerly ufed in Holland by robbers; it was of
iron, fhaped like a pear ; this they forced into the mouths of

perfons

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fpcrfofis from whom they" intended to extort , money ; and,
on turning a key, certain interior fprings ^hruft forth a
number of points, in all directions, which fo enlarged it,
that it could not be taken out of the mouth : and the iron,
Tbeing cafe- hardened, could not be filed : the only methods of
getting rid of it, were either by cutting the mouth, or ad-
vertifing a reward for the key. Thefe pears were aifo called
*pears of agony.
Choaking Pye, or Cold Pye. A puniihment infli&cd on
any perfon lleeping in company: it confifts in wrapping up
cotton in a cafe or rtube of paper, fetting it on fire^ and di-
reeling the fmoke up the noftrils of the deeper. See How-
ell's CoTGRAVE.

Chocolatb. To give chocolate without fugar; to reprove.
Military term.

Choice Spirit. A thoughtlefs, laughing, finging, drunken
fellow.

Chop. A blow. Boxing term.

To Chop avd Change. To exchange backwards and for-
wards. To chop, in the canting fenfe, means making dis-
patch, or hurrying over any bufinefs : ex. The autem bawler
will foon quit the hums, for he chops up the'ivhiaers ; the
parfon will foon quit the pulpit, for he hurries over the
prayers. See Autem Bawlir, Hums, and Whiners.

Chop Churches. Simoniacal dealers in livings, or other
ecclefiaftical preferments.

Chopping.. Lufty. A chopping boy or girl ; a lufty child.

Chops. The mouth. I gave him awherrit, or a foufe,
■J acrofs the chops ; I gave him a blow over the mouth. See

Wherrit.

Chosen Peixs. Highwaymen who rob in pairs, in the ftreets
and fquares of London : to prevent being followed by the
found of their horfes (hoes on the (tones, they (hoe them with
leather.

.Cho-uder. ' A fea dim, compofed of frem fifh, fait pork,
-herbs, and fea-bifcuits, laid in different layers, and ftewed
together.

To Chouse. To cheat or trick : he choufed me out of vt.
Choufe is alfo the term for a game like chuck-farthing.

Christ-cross Row. The alphabet in a horn-book: called
'Chrift-crofs Row, from having, as an Irifhman obferved,
Chrift's erofs prefixed before and after the twenty-four
Jetters.

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Chastening. Erafing the name of the true maker from a
ftolen watch, and engraving a fi&itious one in its place.

Christian Poney. A chairman.

Christmas Compliments. A cough, kibed heels, and a
fnotry nofe.

Chub. He is a young chub, or a mere chub; i. e. a foolifh
fellow, eafily impofed on : an allufion to a fiih of that name,
eafily taken.

Chubby. Round-faced, plump.

Chuck. My chuck ; a term of endearment.

Chuck Farthing. A parifh clerk.

Chuckle-headed. Stupid, thick-headed*

Chuffy. Round-faced, chubby*

Chum. A chamber- fellow, particularly at the univerfities and
in prifon.

Chummage. Money paid by the richer fort of prifoners in
the Fleet and King's Bench, to the poorer, for their (hare of
a room. When prifons are very full, which is too often the
cafe, particularly on the eve of an insolvent aft, two or three
perfons are obliged to fleep in a room. A prifoner who can
pay for being alone, chufes two poor chums, who for a ftipu-
Iated price, called chummage, give up their (hare of the
room, and deep on the (lairs, or, as the term is, ruff it.

Chunk. Among printer*, a "journeyman who refufes to
work for legal wages ; the fame as a flint among taylors.
See Flint.

Church Warden. A Suflex name for a (hag, or cormorant,
probably from its voracity.

Church Work. Said of any work that advances (lowly.

Churchyard Cough. A cough that is likely to terminate
in death.

Churk. The udder.

Churl. Originally, a labourer or hufbandman : figuratively
a rude, furly, boorifh fellow. To put a churl upon a gen-
tleman; to drink malt liquor immediately after having drunk
wine.

Cinder Garbler. A fervant maid, from her bufinefs of
fitting the afhes from the cinders. Cvftom-houfe «zt'/7.

Circumbendibus.. A roundabout way, or ftory. He took
fuch a circumbendibus ; he took fuch a eircuit.

Cit, A citizen of London,

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Cleymes* Artificial fores, made by beggars to excite charity.

Click. A blow. A click in the muns ; a blow or knock in
the face. Cant.

To Click. To fnatcb. To click a nab; to fnatch a hatr

Cant.

Clicker* A falefman's fervant; alfo, one who proportion?
out the different (hares of the booty among thieves*

Cltcket. Copulation of foxes; and thence ufed, in a canting
fenfe, for that of men and women : as, The cull and the more
are at clicket in the dyke ; the man and woman are copulat-
ing in the ditch.

^lickman Toai>. A watch ; alfo an appellation for a Weft-
country man, faid to have arifen from the following ftory :
A Weft-country man, who had never feen a watch, found
one on a heath near Pool, which by the motion of the hand,
and the noife of the wheels, he concluded to be a living
creature of the toad kind; and, from its clicking, he named
it a clickman toad.

Clim3 . To climb the three trees with a ladder i to afcend the
gallows.

Clinch-. A pun or quibble. To clinch, 6r to clinch the 7
nail ; to confirm an improbable (rory by another : as, A man
fwore he drove a tenpenny nail through the moon; a by-
ftander faid it was true, for he waa on the other fide and
clinched it.

Clink* A place in the Borough of Southwark, formerly
privileged from arrefts ; and inhabited by lawlefs vagabonds
of every denomination, called, from the place of their refi.-
dence, clinkers. Alfo a gaol, from the clinking of the
prifoners' chains or fetters : he is gone to clink.

Clinkers. A kind of fm all Dutch bricks ; alfo irons worn
by prifoners ; a crafty fellow.

To Clip. To hug or embrace : to clip and cling. To clip
the coin ; to diminifh the current coin. To clip the king's
Englifh ; to be unable to fpeak plain through drunkennefs.

Cloak Twitchers. Rogues who lurk about the entrances
into dark alleys, and bye-lanes, to fnatch cloaks from the
flioulders of paffengers.

Clod Hopper. A country farmer, or ploughman*

Clod Pate. A dull, heavy booby.

Clod Pole. The fame.

Close. As clofe as God's curfe to a whore's a-fe; clofe as
fhirt and fhitten a-fe.

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Cly the Jerk. To be whipped* Canu

Clyster Pipe. A nick name for an apothecary.

Coach Wheel. A half crown piece is a fore coach wheel,
and a crown piece a hind coach wheel ; the fore wheels of a
coach being lefs than the hind ones.

To Coax. To fondle, or wheedle. To coax a pair of ftock-
ings ; to pull down .the part foiled into the (hoes, fo as to
give a dirty pair of ftockings the appearance of clean ones.
Coaxing is alfo ufed, inftead of darning, to hide the hole*
about the ancles.

Cob. A Spaniih dollar.

Cob, or Cobbing. A punifhment ufed by the feamen for
petty offences, or irregularities, among themfelves : it con-
fifts in baftonadoing the offender on the pofteriors with a cob-
bing ftick, or pipe ftaff; the number ufually in Aided is a
dozen. At the nrft ftroke the executioner repeats the word
watch , on which all perfons pre fen t are to take off their
tats, on pain of like punifhment : the lad ftroke is always
given- as hard as poffible, and is called the purfc. Afhore,
among foldiers, where this punilhment is fometimes adopted,
nvatcb and the purfe are not included in the number, but
given over and above, or, in the vulgar phrafe, free gratis
for nothing. This piece of difcipline rs alfo inflicled in Ire-
land, by the fchool-boys, on perfons coming into the fchool
without taking off their hats ; it is there called fchool
better.

Cobble. A kind of boat. #

To Cob bub. To mend, or patch ; likewife to do a thing in
a bungling manner.

Cobble Colter. A turkey.

Cobler. A mender of fhoes, an improver of the understand-
ings of his cuftomers ; a tranfl ator.

Coblers Punch. Treacle, vinegar, gin, and water.

Cock, or Chief Cock of the Walk. The leading man
in any fociety or body ; the beft boxer in a village or dif-
trift.

Cock Ale. A provocative drink.

Cock Alley, or Cock Lane. The private parts of a wo-
man.

Cock and a Bull Story. A roundabout ftory, without
head or tail, i. e. beginning or ending.

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Cock*a-whoop. Elevated, in high fpirits, transported with joy.

Cock Bawd. A male keeper of a bawdy-hode.

Cock Hoist, A crofs buttock.

Cockish. Wanton, forward. A cockim wench ; a forward
coming girl.

Cockles. To cry cockles ; to be hanged * perhaps From the
noife made whilft ftrarigling. CanU— This will rejoice the
cockles of one's heart; a faying in praife of wine, ale, or
fpirituoas liquors.

Cock Pimp. The fuppofed hufband of a bawd.

Cock Robin. A foft, eafy fellow.

Cock-sure. Certain : a metaphor borrowed from the cock
of a firelock, as being much more certain to fire than the
match.

Cock's Tooth. I live at the fign of the cock's tooth and
head-ach; an anfwer to an impertinent perfbn, who aflcs
where one lives.

Cock your Ete. Shut one eye : thus tranflated into apothe-
caries Latin— G alius tuus ego.

Cock e r. One fond of the diverfion of cock-fighting.

Cockney. A nick name given to the citizens of London, or
perfons born within the found of Bow bell, derived from the
J following ftory : A citizen of London being in the country,

and hearing a horfe neigh, exclaimed, Lord ! how that horfe
laughs! Aby-ftander telling him that noife was called neigh-
ing, the next morning, when the cock crowed, the citizen,
to (hew he had not forgot what was told him, cried out, Do
you hear how the cock neighs ? The king of the Cockneys is
mentioned among the regulations for the fports and mows
fornlerly held in the Middle Temple on Childermas Day,
where he had his officers, a marfhal, conftable, butler, &c*
. See Dugdale's Qrigines juridiciates, p. 247.— Ray fays, the
interpretation of the word Cockney, is, a young perfon
coaxed or coquered, made wanton ; or a nefile cock, deli-
cately bred and brought up, fo as, when arrived at man's
eftate, to be unable to bear the leaft hardfhip. Whatever
may be the origin of this appellation, we learn from the fol-
lowing verfes, attributed to Hugh Bigot, Earl of Norfolk,
that it was in ufe in the time of king Henry II.

Was I in my caftle at Bungay,

Fait by the river Waveney,

1 would not care for the king of Cockney ;

i, e. the king of London,

Cock*

COL

Coc ksh ut Time* The evening, when fowls go to rooft.

Cod. A cod of money ; a jgood fum of money.

Codders. Perfons employed by the gardeners to gather peas.

Codger. An old codger ; an old fellow.

Cod Pi e cb. The fore flap of a man's breeches. Do they bite,
matter ? where* in the cod piece or collar I— a jocular attack
v on a patient angler by watermen, Sec, '

<£qds. The fcrotum. Alfo a nick name for a curate : a rude
fellow meeting a curate, miftook him for the re&or, and ac-
cofted him with the vulgar appellation of Bol— ksthe rettor.
No, Sir, anfwered he ; only Cods the curate, at your fer-
vice.

Cod's Head. A ftupid fellow.

Cods Heads. A fociety who met in London.

Coffee House. A neceflary houfe. To make a coffee-
houfe of a woman's ** # * ; to go in and out and fpend no-
thing.

jCog. The money, or whatfoever the fweeteners drop to draw
in. a bubble.

To Cog. 'Fo cheat with dice ; alfo to coax or wheedle. To
cog a die ; to conceal or fecure a die. To cog a dinner ; to
wheedle one out of a dinner.

CoGVE. A dram of any fpirituous litjuor,

Coker. A lie.

Cokes. The fool in the play of Bartholomew Fair : perhaps a
contraction of the word coxctmb.

Colcannon. Potatoes and cabbage pounded together in a
mortar, and then dewed with butter : an Irifh di(h.

Cold. You will catch cold at that ; a vulgar threat or advice
to de/ift from an attempt. He caught cold by lying in bed
barefoot ; a faying of any one extremely tender or careful of
hiinfelf.

Cold Burning. A punifhment inflicted by private foldiers
on their comrades for trifling offences, or breach- of their
mefs laws : it is adminiftered in the following manner : The
prifoner is fet againft the wall, with the arm which is to be
burned tied as high above his head as poffible. The execu-
tioner then afcends a ftocl, and liaving a bottle of cold water,
pours it (lowly down the fleeve of the delinquent, patting
him, and leading the water gently down his body, till it runs
out at his breeches knees : this is repeated to the other arm,
if he is fentenced to be burned in both.

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Colt Veal, Coarfc red veal, more like the fiefti of a coft than
that of a calf.

Col u m b r a r i a n s. The brethren of this honourable fociety
aflembled, A, D. 1743, at the Bull-Inn, in Bifhopfgate-
ftreet.

Comb. To comb one's head ; to clapperclaw, or fcold any
one : a woman who ledures her hufband, is faid to comb his>
head. She combed his head with a joint ftool ; ihe threw a
(tool at him. *

Come. To come ; to lend. Has he come it j has he lent it ?
To come over any one y to cheat or over- reach him. Coming
wench ; a forward wench> alfo a breeding woman.

Coming! so is Christmas* Said of a perfon who has long
been catted, and at length anfwers, Coming !

Comfortable Importance. A wife*

Commission. A fhirt. Cant*

Comm-ode. A woman's head drefs.

Commodity. A woman's commodity \ the private part* of 9
modeft woman, and the public parts of a proftitute.

Commons. The houfe of commons ; the neceffary houfc.

Company, To fee company ; to enter into a courfe of profti-
tution.

Compliments. See Christmas*

Co mus's Court. A focial meeting formerly held at the Half
Moon tavern, Cheapfide.

Confect. Counterfeited.

Conger. To conger; the agreement of a fet or knot of book*
fellers of London, that whofoever of them (hall huy :* good
eopy, the reft fhall take of fuch a particular number, in quires*,
at a Hated price ; alfo bookfellers joining to buy either a con-
fiderabfc or dangerous copy.

Congo. Will you lap your coago with me? will you drink
tea with me ?

Con ny Wabble. Eggs and brandy beat up together. Irijh*

Conscience" Keeper. A fuperior, who by his influence
makes his dependents acl as he pleafes.

Content. The cull's content; the man is paft complain-
ing : a faying of a perfon murdered fox refitting the robbers*
Cant.

Content. A thick liquor, in imitation' of chocolate, made^
of milk and gingerbread*

Contea

cow

Co vs. A man, a fellow, a rogue. The cove was bit ; the
rogue was outwitted. The cbve has bit the cole ; the rogue
has got the money. Cant.

Covent, or Convent Garden, vulgarly called Common 1
Garden. Anciently, the garden belonging to a drffolved
rnonaftery; now famous for Deine the chief market in Lon-
don for fruit, flowers, and herbs. The two theatres are
fituated near it. In its environs are many brothels, and,
not long ago, the lodgings of the fecond order, of ladies of
eafy virtue were either there, or in the purlieus of Drury
Lane.

Covent Garden Abbess. A bawd,

Cove nt Garden Agus, The venereal difeafe. He broke
his fhins againft Covent Garden rails-; he caught the vene-
real diforder.

Covent Garden Nun. A proftitute.

Coventry. To fend one to Coventry ; a puniftiment inflicted
by officers of the army on fuch of their brethren as are tefty,
or have been guilty of improper behaviour, not worthy the
cognizance of a court martial. The perfon fent to Coventry

* is confidered as abfent ; no one muft fpeak to or anfwer any
queftion he afks, except relative to duty, under penalty of
being alfo fent to the fame place. On a proper iubmiffion,
the penitent is recalled, and welcomed by the mefs, as juft
returned from a journey to Coventry.

Covey. A collection of whores! What a fine covey here is*
if the Devil would but throw his net !

To Couch a Hogshead. To lie down to fleep. Cant.

Counterfeit Crank. A general cheat, afluming all fort*
of characters ; one counterfeiting the falling ficknefs.

Country Harry* A waggoner. Cant.

Country Put. An ignorant country fellow*

Court Card. A gay fluttering coxcomb.

Court Holy Water. 1 p a j r fn ee ches and promifes, without
Court Promises. J performance.

Court of Assistants. A court often applied to by young
women who marry old men.

Court of Nul Tiel Record. A focie ty held, A. D. 1756^
at the One Tun, in the Strand.

Cow. To fleep like a cow, i. e. with a **** at one's a-fe ;
£aid of a married man ; married men being fuppofed to fleep

with

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we brought him back by a great blow on the head, whick
laid him fpeechlefs.

Crag. The neck.

Cramp Rings. Bolts, (hackles, or fetters. Cant.

Cramp Words.. Sentence of death patied on a criminal by a
judge. He has juft undergone the cramp word ; fentencc
has juft been pafled on him. Canu

Crank. Gin and water; alfo, briik, pert.

Crank. The falling ficknefs. Cant.

Crap, or Crop. Money.

Cra?pei>. Hanged. Canu

To Crash. To kill. Cralh that cull ; kill that fellow. Cent.

Crashing Cheats. Teeth,

Craw Thumpers. Roman catholics, fo called from their
beating their breads in the confeffion of their fins. See
Brisket Beater, and Breast Fleet*

Cream-pot Love. Such as young fellows pretend to dairy*
maids, to get cream and other good things from them.

ToCreeme. To flip 01 Aide any thing into the hands of
another. Cant.

Creepers. Gentlemen's companions, lice.

Crew. A knot or gang; alfo a boat or (hip's company. The
canting crew are thus divided into twenty-three orders, which
fee under the different words :

MEN.

i Rufflers 9 Jarkmen, or Patricocs

s Upright Men 10 Frefh Water Mariners, or

3 Hookers or Anglers Whip Jackets

4 Rogues n Drummerers

$ Wild Rogues 12 Drunken Tinkers

6 Priggers of Praricers 1 3 Swadders, or Pedlars

7 Palliardes* 14 Abrams.

8 Fraters

WOMEN. N

i Demanders for Glim- 5 Walking Morts

mer or Fire 6 Doxies

2 , Bawdy' Bafkets 7 Delles

3 Morts 8 Kinching Morts

4 Autem Morts * 9 Kinching Coes.

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Croaker. One who is always foretelling fome accidental
misfortune : an allufion to the croaking of a raven, fuppofed
ominous*

C*oakumshire. Northumberland, from the particular crock-
ing in the pronunciation of the people of that county, efpe-
cially about Newcaftle and Morpeth, where they are faid to
be born with a burr in their throats, which prevents their
pronouncing the letter r.

Croakers. Foreftallers, called alfo Kidders and Tranters.

Crocodile's Tears. The tears of a hypocrite. Crocodiles
are fabuloufly reported to (bed tears over their prey before
they devour it.

Crocus, or Crocus Metallorum; A nick name for a
furgeon of the army and navy.

Croker. A groat, or four pence.

Crone. An old ewe whofe teeth are worn out: figuratively,
a toothiefs old beldam.

Crony. An intimate companion, a comrade; alfo a confe-
derate in a robbery*

Crook. Sixpence.

Crook Back. Sixpence: fot the rcafon of this name, fee
Cripple.

Crook your Elbow. To crook one's elbow, and wifh it
may never come ftraight, if the facl then affirmed is not true
—according to the cafuifts of Bow-ftreet and St. Giles's,
adds great weight and efficacy to an oath*

Crook Shanks. A nick name for a man with bandy legs*
He buys his boots in Crooked Lane, and his ft oc kings in
Bandy-legged Walk ; his legs grew in the night, therefore
could not fee to grow flraight : jeering fayings of men with
crooked legs.

Crop* A nick name for a prefbyterian : from their cropping
their hair, which they trimmed clofe to a bowl-difh, placed
as a guide on their heads ; whence they were likewife called
roundheads. See Roundheads.

rop. Money* See Crap. Cant.

Crop the Con juror. Jeering appellation of one with fhort hair.

Cropping Drums. Drummers of the foot guards, or Chel-
fea hofpital, who find out weddings, and beat a point of
war to ferenade the new-married couple, and thereby obtain
money.

Crop pen. The tail. The croppen of the rotan ; the tail of
the cart, Croppen ken ; the nectflary houfe. Cant.

Cropsick.

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ffaall beer,' her modefly not permitting her to defire fo fine*
gentleman to bring it : the fellow, confeiotas that his miftrefs
could not hear either the requeft or anfwer, replied, without
- moving, « I wifti you had, Mrs. Crurrip.' Thefe wiflies be-
ing again repeated by both parties, Mrs. Crump got up from
the table to fetch it herfelf ; and being alked by my Lady
where (he was going, related what had patted. The ilory
being told abroad, the expreffion became proverbial,

Crump-backed. Hump-backed.

Crusty Beau. One that ufes paint and cofmetics, to obtain
a fine complexion.

Crusty Fellow. A furly fellow.

Cub. An unlicked cub; an unformed, ill-educated young
man, a young nobleman or gentleman on his travels : anallu-
fion to the dory of the bear, faid to bring its cub into form
. by licking. Alfo, a new gamefter.

Cuckold. The hufband of an incontinent wife: cuckolds,
however, are Chriftians, as we learn by the following ftory :
An old woman hearing a man call his dog Cuckold, reproved
him fharply, faying, ' Sirrah, are not you alhamed to call a
* dog by a Chriftian's name ?' To cuckold the parfon ; to be4
with one's wife before (he has been churched.

Cucumbers. Taylors, who are jocularly faid to fiihfift, duff-
ing the fummer, chiefly on cucumbers.

Cuff. An old cuff; an old man. To cuff* Jonas ; faid of one
who is knock-kneed, or who beats his fides to keep himfelf
warm in frofty weather ; called alfo Beating the Booby.

Cuff in. A man.

Cull. A man, honed or othcrwife. A bob cull; a good-
natured, quiet fellow. Cant.

Cullability. A difpofition liable to be cheated, an unfuf-
peeling nature, open to impofition.

Cully. A fop or fool; alfo, a dupe to women: from the
Italian word cogl'ume, a blockhead.

Culp. A kick or blow: from the words me a culpa, being
that part of the popifh liturgy at which the people beat their
breads; or, as the vulgar term is, thump their craws.

Cu ndum. The dried gut of a fheep, worn by men in the a&
of coition, to prevent venereal infection ; faid to have been
invented by one colonel Cundum. Thefe machines were
long prepared and fold by a matron of the name of Philips,
at the Green Canifter, in Half-moon-ftreet,. in the Strand.
That good lady having acquired a fortune, retired fron*

bufineisj

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bufinefs ; but learning that the town was not well ferved by
her fucceffors, (he, out of a patriotic zeal for the public wel-
fare, Returned to her occupation ; of which (he gave notice
by divers hand-bills> in circulation in the year 1776. Alfo
a falfe fcabbard over a fword, and the oil- (kin cafe for hold*
ing the colours of a regiment.

Cunningham* A panning appellation for a fimple fellow*

Cunning Man. A cheat, who pretends by his (kilt in
aftrology to a (lift perfons in recovering ftolen goods : and
alfo to tell them their fortunes, and when, how often, and
to whom they (hall be married ; like wife anfwers all lawful
queftions, both by fea and land. This profeflion is frequent-
ly occupied by ladies.

Cu nning Shaver. A (harp fellow, one that trims clofe, 2 . e.
cheats ingeniously.

Cunny- thumbed. To double one's fill with the thumb in*,
wards, like a woman.

C* # t. The xowo< of the Greek, and the cunnus of the Latin
dictionaries ; a nafty name for a nafty thing : un con Miege.

Cup of the Creature. A cup of good liquor.
Cup-shot. Drunk.

"Cup board Love. Pretended love to the cook, or any other

rirfon, for the fake of a meal. My guts cry cupboard ; i. c.
am hungry.

Cupid, Blind Cupid. A jeering name for an ugly blind
man : Cupid, the god of leve, being frequently painted
blind*

Cur. A cut or curtailed dog. According to the foreft laws,
a man who had no right to the privilege of the chafe, was
obliged to cut or law his dog : among other modes of di&
abling him from difturbing the game, one was by depriving
him of his tail : a dog fo cut was called a cut or curtailed dog,
and by contraction a cur. A cur is figuratively ufed to figw
nify a furly fellow.

Curbing Law. The aft of hooking goods out of windows :
the curber is the thief, the curb die hook. Cant.

Curb A-sb. A dyachilon plafter, applied to the parts galled
by riding.

Cu rjew. The vulgar Teamen's pronunciation oftheCoura-
geux (hip of wan

Cu Rlb. Clippings of money, which curls up in the operation.
Q#nti

I * Cur.

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Curmudgeon, A covetous old fellow, derived, according to
fotne, from the French term caur mt chant.

Curry. To carry favour; to obtain the favour of a perfon
by coaxing, or fcrvility. To curry any one's hide ; to beat
him.

Curse of Scotland. The nine of diamonds : diamonds, it
is faid, imply royalty, being ornaments to the imperial crown;
and every ninth king of Scotland has been obferved, for many
ages, to be a tyrant and a curie to that country* Others fay
it is from its fimilarity to the arms of Argyle ; the Duke of
Argyle having been very inftrumental in bringing about the
union, which, by fome Scotch patriots, has been confidered
as detrimental to their country,

Cursitors, Broken pettyfogging attornies, or Newgate fo-
licitors. Cant.

Curtails. • Thieves who cut off pieces of duff hanging out of
fhop windows, the tails of women's gowns, &c. ; alfo thieves,
-wearing fhort jackets.

Curtain Lecture. A woman who fcolds her hufband when
in bed, is faid to read him a curtain leltore.

Curtezan. A proftitute. -

Cushion. He has deferved the cufhion ; a faying of one
whofe wife is brought to bed of a boy : implying, that hav-
ing done his bufinefs effectually, he may now indulge or re*
pofe him (elf*

Cushion Thumper, or Duster. A parfon; many of
whom, in the fury of their eloquence, heartily belabour their .
culhions. N

Custard Cap. The cap worn by the fword-bearer of the)
city of London, made hollow at the top like a cuftard.

Cu 8 tom-house Goods. The flock in trade of a proflitute,
becaufe fkixly entered.

Cut. . Drunk* A little cut over the head ; (lightly intoxicated.
To cut ; to leave a perfon or company. To cut up well ; to
die rich.

To Cut bene. To fpeak gently. To cut bene whiddes; ta
give good words* . To cut queer whiddes ; to give foul
language. To cut a bofli, or a flafti ; to make a figure. Cant %

" To Cutty-eye. To look out of the corners of one's eyes.
to leer, to look aikance. The cull cutty-eyed at us j th$
fellow looked fufpicious at us.

D.

DAM

D

'AB. An adept ; a dab at any feat or exercife. Dab,
quoth Dawkins, when he hit his 'wife on the a-fe with a
pound of butter.

Dace. Two pence. Tip me a dace 5 lend me two pence.
Cant. *

Da doles. Hands. Tip us your daddle ; give me your hand,

Ca?it.

Daddy. Father. Old daddy; a familiar addrefs to an old
man. To beat daddy mammy i the firft rudiments of drum
beating, being the elements of the roll.

Daggers. They are at daggers drawing; i. e. at enmity,

ready to fight.

Dairy. . A woman's breads* particularly one that gives fuck*
She fported her dairy ; (he pulled out her breaft,

Daisy Cutter* A jockey term for a horfe that does not lift
up his legs Efficiently, or goes too near the ground, and is
therefore apt to (tumble.

Daisy Kickers. Hoftlers at great inns.

Da lm ahoy. A D aim ahoy wig; a particular kind of bulhy
bob wig, firft worn by a chymift of that name, and after-
wards adopted by tradefmen, apothecaries, &c.

Dam. A fmall Indian coin, mentioned in the Gen too code of
laws; hence etymologies may, if they pleafe, derive the
common expreffion, I do not care a dam, 1, e, I do not care
half a farthing for it.

D amber. A rafcal. See Dimbir.

Damme Boy, A roaring, mad, bluftering fellow, a fcourerof
the Greets, or kicker up of a breeze.

Damned Soul. A clerk in a counting-houfe, whole fole
buiinefs it is to clear or fwear off merchandife at the cuftom*
houfe ; and who, it is faid, guards againft the, crime of per-
jury, by taking a previous oath, never to fwear truly on thole
occafions.

Pa mt er. A luncheon, or fnap before dinner : (6 called from
its damping, or allaying, the appetite ; eating and drinking
being, as the proverb wifely pbfenrei, apt to take away the
aopetite,

Dancers*

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Dancers. Stairs.

Dandy. That's the dandy-; i. e. the ton, the clever thing :
an expreffion of fimilar import to " That's the barber."
See Barber.

Dandy grey Russet. A dirty brown. His' coat's dandy
grey reflet, the colour of the Devil's nutting bag.

Da n d y P * at. An infignificant or trifling fellow.

To Dangle. To follow a woman without afking the quef-
tioe. Alfo> to be hanged : I (hall fee you dangle in the
fherifF's picture-frame; 1 (hall fee you hanging on the gal-
lows*

Dangler. One who follows women in general, without any
particular attachment.

D.-iFPRR Fellow. A {mart, well- made, little man.

Darbies. Fetters. • Cant.

Darby* Ready money. Cant*

Dark Cully. A married man that keeps a raiftrefs, whom
he vifits. only at night, for fear of difco very.

Darkmans. The night. Cant.

Darkmans Budge, One that Hides into a houfe in the dark
of the evening, and hides himfelf, in order to let fome of the
gang in at night to rob it.

Dart. A ftraight-armed blow in boxing.

Dash. A tavern drawer. To cut a dafli; to make a figure.

David Jones. The devil, the fpirit of the fea : called
Neken in the north countries, fuch as Norway, Denmark,
and Sweden.

David Jones's Locker. The fea.

David's Sow. As drunk as David's fow ; a common faying,
which took its rife from the following circumftance : One
David Lloyd, a Welchman, who kept an alehoufe at Here*
ford, had a living fow with fix legs, which was greatly re-
formed to by the curious : he had alfo a wife much addicted
to drunkennefs, for which he ufed fometimes to give her due
correction. One day David's wife having taken a cup too
much, and being fearful of the confequences, turned out the
fow, and lay down to fleep herfelf fober in the ftye. A
company coming in to fee the fow, David ufhered them into
the Aye, exclaiming, There is a fow for you f did any of you
ever fee fuch another f all the while fuppofing the fow had
really been there ; to which fome of the company, feeing
the iftate the woman was in, replied* it was the drunkenelt

fow

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.-fow they had ever beheld ; whence the woman was e*er afe*
called David's fow.

Davy. I'll take my davy of it; vulgar abbreviation of affi-
davit.

To Dawb. To bribe. The cull was fcragged becaufe he
could not dawb ; the rogue was hanged becaufe he could not
bribe. All bedawbed with lace ; all over lace..

Day Lights. Eyes. To darken his day lights, or few up
his fees ; to clofe up a man's eyes in boxing.

Dead Cargo. A term ufed by thieves, when they axe difap-
pointed in the value of their booty.

Dead Horse. To work for the dead horfe; to work for
wages already paid.

J)ead- louse. Vulgar pronunciation of the Dedalus (hip of war*

Dead Men* A cant word among journeymen takers, for.
. loaves falfely charged to their mailers' cuftomers ; alfo empty
bottles.

Deadly Nevercreen, that bears fruit all. the year round.
The gallows, or three-legged mare. See Three-leggej>
Mare.

Dear Joys, Iriihmen : from their frequently making tilt of
that cxpreffion.

Death Hunter. An undertaker, one who furnifhes the
necefTary articles for funerals. See Carrion Hunter.

*

Death's Head upon a Mop- stick. A poor, mi{erable f
emaciated fellow; one quite an atomy. See Otomy, — He
looked as pleafant as the pains of death.

JpEcus. A crown piece.

Deep-one. A thorough* paced rogue, a fly defigning fellow :
in oppofition to a (hallow or foolilh one.

Deft Fellow. A neat little man.

Degen, or Dag en. A fword. Nim the degen; deal the
fword. Dagen is Dutch for a fword. Cant.

Dells. Young buxom wenches, ripe and prone to venery,
but who have not loft their virginity, which the upright man
claims by virtue of his prerogative,; after which they be-
come free for any of the fraternity. Alfo a common drum*
pet. Cant*

Demure. As demure as an old whore at a chriftening.

Demy-rep. Abbreviation of demy- reputation ; a woman of
doubtful character.

Derby.

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Diciv. A woman's under- petticoat. It's all Dickey with
him ; i. e. it's all over with him.

DiDDEYs. A woman's breads or babbies.

Diddle. Gin. t

Diggers. Spurs, CanU

Dildo. [From the Italian diletfo, q. d. a woman's delight $
or from our word dally > q. d. a thing to play withal.] renis
Succedaneus, called in Lombardy PaiTo Tempo. Baily.

Dn.iGtNT. Double diligent, like the Devil's apothecary;
faid of one affectedly diligent.

Dilly. [An abbreviation of the word diligence.] A public
voicure or ftage, commonly a poft-chaife, carrying three per*
fons : the name is taken from the public ftage vehicles in
France and Flanders. The dillies firft began to run in
England about the year 1 77 9.

Dimber. Pretty. A dimber con*; a pretty fellow* Dimber
mort ; a pretty wench. Cants

Dimber Damber. A top man, or prince, among the canting
crew ; alfo the chief rogue of the gang, or the completed
cheat. Cant,

Ding. To knock down. To ding it in one's ears.; to re*.
proach or tell one fomething'one is not defirous of hearing.
Alfo to throw away or hide : thus a highwayman who throws
away or hides any thing with which he robbed, to prevent
being known or detected, is, in the canting lingo, iryled a
Dinger.

Ding Boy. A rogue, a hector, a bully, or (harper* Cant.

Dikg Dong. Helter fleeter, in a hafly diforderly manner.

Dingey Christian. A mulatto; or any one who has, as the
Weft-Indian term is, a lick of the tar-brufh> that is, fome
negro blood in him.

Dining Room Post. A mode of ftealing in houfes that let
lodgings, by rogues pretending to be pod men, who fend up
lham letters to the lodgers, and, whilft waiting in the entry
for the poftage, go into the firft room they fee open, and
rob it.

Dip. To dip for a wig. Formerly, In Middle Row, Hol«
born, wigs of different forts were, it is faid, put into a clofe-
ftool box, into which, for three- pence, any one might dip,
or thruft in his hand, and take out the firft wig he laid hold
of; if he was diflatisfied with his prize, he might, on paying
three halfpence, return it and dip again.

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morning, or late at light ; generally praftifed by women in
the difguife of maid fervants.

Tq Dock. To lie with a woman. The cull docked the dell
all the dark mans ; the fellow lay with the wench all night.
Docked fmack fmooth ; one who has fufFered an amputation
of his penis, from a venereal complaint. He muft go into
dock ; a fea phrafe, fignifying that the perfon fpoken of mod
undergo a fa H vat ion. Docking is alfo a punifhment in-
filled by failors on the proftitutes who have infixed them
with the venereal difeafe ; it confifts in cutting off all their
clothes, petticoats, fhift and all, clofe to their ft ays, and
then turning them into the ftrcet.

Doctor* Milk and water, with a little rum, and fome nut-
meg : alfo the name of a compofitron ufed by diftillers, to
make fpirits appear ftronger than they really arc, or, in their
phrafe, better proof.

Doctors. Loaded dice, that will run but twe or three chance*.
They put the do&ors upon him; they cheated him with
loaded dice.

Dodsey. A woman: perhaps a corruption of Doxey. Cant*

Dog. An old dog at it; expert or accuftomed to any thing.
Dog in a manger ; one who would prevent another from
enjoying what he himfelf does not want : an allufion to the
well-known fable. The dogs have not dined ; a common

_ faying to any one whofe (hire Hiangs out behind. To dog,
or dodge ; to follow at a diitance. To blufh like a blue
dog, i. e. not at all. To walk the black dog on any one; a
punifhment infltdted in the night on a frefh prifoner, by his
comrades, in cafe of his refufal to pay the ufual footing or
garni (h.

Dog Buffers. Dog dealers, who k i 11 thofe dogs not ad ver-
tifed for, fell their fkins, and feed the remaining dogs wi*
their flefti.

Dog in a Doublet. A daring, refolute fellow. In Ger-
many and Flanders the bold eft dogs ufed to hunt the boar,
haying a kind of buff doublet buttoned on their bodies.
Rubens has reprefented feveral fo equipped, fo has Sneyders.

Dog Latin. Barbarous Latin, fuch as was formerly ufed by
the lawyers in their pleadings.

Dog's Portion. A lick and a fmell. He comes in for only
a dog's portion ; a faying of one who is a diftant admirer of
dangler after women* bee Dangler.

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Dog's Rig. To copulate (ill you are tired, and then torn
tail to it.

Dog's Soup. Rain water.

Dog Vane. A cockade. Sea term*

Dogged. Surly.

Doggess, Dog's Wife or Lady, Puppy's Mamma. Jocu-
lar ways of calling a woman a bitch.

Doll. Bartholomew doll ; a tawdry, over-dreft woman, like
one of the children's dolls fold at Bartholomew fay - . To
mill doll ; to beat hemp at Bridewell, or any other houfe of
correction.

Dolly. A Yorklhire dolly ; a contrivance for wafhing, by
means of a kind of wheel fixed in a tab, which being turned
about, agitates and cleanfes the linen put into it, with jfoap
and water. %

Do m i n e Do little. An impotent old fellow.,

Domineer. To reprove or command in an infolent or haughty
manner. Don't think as how you fhall dQmineer here.

Dommerer. A beggar pretending that his tongue has been
cut out by the Algerines, or cruel and biood-thirfty Turks,
or elfe that he was born deaf and dumb. Cant.

Done, or Done over. Robbed; alfo, convided or hanged.
C«»/.«^-See Do.

Done up. Ruinod by gaming and extravagances. Modern
term*

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Donkey, Donkey Dick. A he, or jack afs : called donkey,
perhaps, from the Spanifh or don-like gravity of that animal,
intitled alfo the king of Spain's trumpeter.

Doodle. A filly fellow, or noodle: fee Noodle. Alfo a
child's penis. Doodle doo, or Cock a doodle doo ; a childiih
appellation for a cock, in imitation of its note when crow-
ing.

Poodle Sack, A bagpipe. Dutch* — Alfo the private parts
v of a woman.

Dopey. A beggar's trull.

Dose. Burglary. He was caft for felon and dofe; he wj#
found guilty of felony and burglary. Cant. ,

Dot and go one. To waddle: generally applied to perfons
who have one leg fhorter than the other, and who, as the
fea phrafe is, go upon an uneven keel. Alfo a jeering
appellation fo* an inferior writing-mailer, or teacher of
arithmetic.

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Double. To tip any one the doable ; to run away in his or
her debt.

Double J ugg. A man's backfide. Cotton* s Virgil.

Dove-tail. A fpecie* of regular anfwer, which fits in to
the fubjec"t, like the contrivance whence it takes its name :
ex* Who owns this I The dovetail is. Not yon by your a(k-

Douglas. Roby Douglas, with one eye and a (linking breath;
the breech. Sea <wit.

Dowdt. A coarfe, vulgar- looking woman.

Dowdy i kg. A local joke formerly praclifed at Salifbury,
on large companies, or perfons boafting of their courage.
It was performed by one Pearce, who had the knack of per-
sonating madnefs, and who, by the direction of fome of the
company, would burft into a room, in a mod furious man-
ner, as if juft broke loefe from his keeper, to the great
terror of thofe not in the fee ret. Dowdying became fo much
the fafhion of the place, that it was exhibited before his
Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales, father of our prefent
fovereign. Pearce obtained the name of Dowdy, from a
fong he ufed to fing, which had for its burthen the words
doiv de denv,

Down Hills. Pice that run low.

To Dowse. To take down: as, Dowife the pendant. Dowfc
your dog vane ; take the cockade out of your hat. Dowfc
the glim ; put out the candle.

Dowse on the Chops. A blow in the face,

Dowser. Vulgar pronunciation of douceur.

Doxies. She beggars, wenches, whores.

D&ab, A nafty, flutiifh whore.

Drag. To go on the drag ; to follow a cart or waggon, in
order to rob it. Cant.

Dkaggletail, or Daggletail, One whofe garments an?
befpattered with dag or dew : generally applied to the female
fex, to iiguify a flattem,

Dragooning it. A man who occupies two branches of one
profcfllon, is faid to dragoon it ; becaufe, like the foldier of ,

, that denomination, he ferves in a double capacity. Such ia
a phyfician who furnilhes the medicines, and compounds his
own prefcriptions.

Dram. A glafs or fmaJl meafure of any fpirituous liquors,
* which, being originally fold by apothecaries, were eftimated

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by drams, ounces, Sec* Dog's dram ; to fpit in his mouth,
and clap his back.

Dram-a-tick. A dram ferved upon credit*

Drapes. An ale draper ; an alehoufe keeper.

Draught, or Bill, on the Pump at Aldgate. A bad
or falfe bill of exchange. See Aldgate.

Draw Latches. Robbers of houfes whofe doors ate only
fattened with latches. Cant.

Drawers. Stockings. Cant.

Drawing the King's Picture. Coining. CanU

To Dress. To beat. I'll drefs his hide neatly; I'll beat him
foundry.

Dribble. A method of pouring out, as it were, the dice
from the box, gently, by which an old practitioner is en-
abled tp cog one of them with his fore- finger.

Dripper. A gleet.

Dromedary. A heavy, bungling thief or rogue. A purple
dromedary ; a bungler in the art and my Aery of thieving.
CanU

Drommerars. See Dommersr. v

Drop. The new drop ; a contrivance for executing felons at
Newgate, by means of a platform, which drops from under
them : this is alfo called the lad drop. See Leap.

Drop a Cog. To let fall, with defign, a piece of gold or filver,
in order to draw in and cheat the perfon who fees it picked
up ; the piece.fo dropped is called a dropt cog.

Drop in the Eye. Almoft drunk.

To Drub. To beat any one with a (lick, or rope's end : per*
haps a contraction of dry rub. It is alfo ufed to fignify a
good beating with any inftrument.

Drumbelo. A dull, heavy fellow.

Drummer. A jockey term for a horfe that throws about
his fore legs irregularly : the idea is taken from a kettle
drummer, who in beating makes many flourifhes with his
drumfticks.

Drunk. Drunk as a wheel-barrow. Drunk as David's fow :
See David's Sow.

Drury Lane Ague. The venereal diforder.

D*ury Lane Vestal. A woman of the town, or profti-
tute : Drury-lane, and its environs, were formerly the refi-
dence of many of thofe ladies.

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Dry Bob. A fmart repartee : alfo copulation without emif-
fion ; in law Latin, Jtccus robertulus*

Dry Boots. A fly humorous fellow*

Dub. A picklock, or mailer- key. Cant.

Dub Lay. Robbing houfes by picking the locks*

Due the Jigger. Open the door. CanU

2)ub> o* th' Hick. A lick on the head.

Dubber. A picker of locks. Caff/. •

Duce. Two-pence*

Duck. A lame duck ; ah Exchange-alley phrafe for a flock-
jobbery who either cannot or will not pay his lofles, or dif-
ierences, in Which cafe he is faid to waddle out of the alley %
as he cannot appear there again till his debts are fettled and
paid ; (hould he attempt itj he would be huftled out by the
fraternity.

Ducks and Drakes. To make ducks and drakes ; a (School-
boy's anuifemenr, praftifed with pieoss of tile, oyfter-fhells,
or ffattifti (tones, which being (kimmed along the furface of a
pond, or Hill river, rebound many times. To make ducks
and drakes of one's money ; to throw it idly away.

Duck~F-ck-r. The roan who has the care of the poultry oa
board a (hip of war.

Duck Legs. Short legs.

D.uddbrs, or Whispering Dudders. Cheats who travel the
country, pretending to fell fmuggled goods : they accoft their
intended dupes in a whifper. The goods they have for fale
are old (hop-keepers, or damaged ; purchafed by them of
large manufactories. See Duffer.

Duddering Rake. A thundering: rake, a buck of the fifft
head, one extremely lewd.

Dudgeon. Anger.
Duds. Clothes*

Duffers. Cheats who ply in different parts of the town, par-
. ticularly about Water lane, oppofite St. Clement's Church in
the Strand, and pretend to deal in fmuggled goods, (top-
ping all country people, or fuch as they think they can im-
pofe on ; which they frequently do, by felling them Spital-»
fields goods at double their current price.

Duke, or Rum Duke. A queer unaccountable fellow.
Duke of Limbs* A tall, awkward, ill-made fellow.

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Duke Humphrey. To dine with Duke Humphrey ; to faft.
In ©Id St. Paul's church was an aide called Duke Humphrey's
walk (from a tomb vulgarly called his, but in reality be-
longing to John of Gaunt), and perfons who walked there,
while others were at dinner, were faid to dine with Duke .
Humphrey*

Dull Swift* A ftupid, fluggilh fellow,, one long going on
an errand.

Dumb Arm, Alarnearm.

Dumb-founded. Silenced, alfo foundly beaten.

Dumb Glutton. A woman's privities.

Dumb Watch. A venereal bubo in the groin. .

JDumplin. A fhort thick man or woman. Norfolk dumplin;
a jeering appellation of a Norfolk man, dumplins being a
favourite kind of food in that country.

Dumps. Down in the dumps; low-ijririted, melancholy:
jocularly faid to be derived from Dumpos, a king of Egypt,
who died of melancholy. Dumps are alfo fmall pieces of
lead, cad by fchoolboys in the fhape of money.

Dun. An importunate creditor. Dunny, in the provincial
dialeft of feveral counties, fignifies deaf\ to dun, then, per-
haps may mean to deafen with importunate demands : fonre
derive it from the word donnex 9 which fignifies give. But
the true original meaning of the word, owes its birth to one
Joe Dun, a famous bailiff of the town of Lincoln, fo ex-
tremely active, and fo dexterous in his bufinefs, that it became
a .proverb* when a man refufed to pay, Why do not yon
Dun him I that is, Why do not you fet Dun to arreft him ?
Hence it became a cant word, and is now as old as fince the
days of Henry VII. Dun was alfo the general name for (he
hangman, before that of Jack Ketch.

And prefently a halter got y
Made of the beftftrong hempen teer*
And ere a cat could lick her ear,
Had tied it up with as much art, .
As DUN himfelf could do for 's hearU

Cotton* s Virgil Tra<o. look iv.

D u n a k e r ♦ A ftealer of cows and calves.

^Dunghill. A coward : a cockpit phrafe, all but game cocks
being ftyled dunghills. To die dunghill ; to repent, or fhew
any figns of contrition, at the gallows. Moving dunghill ; a
dirty, filthy man or woman. Dung, an abbreviation of
dunghill, alfo means a journeyman taylor who fubmits to the

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law for regulating journeymen taylors' wages, therefore deem-
ed by the flints a coward. See Flints.

Dun nock. A cow. Cant.

To Dup. To open a door : a contraction of do ope or open.
See Dub.

D u rg e n . A little trifling fellow.

Durham Man. Knocker kneed, he grinds muftard with his
knees ; Durham is famous for its maftard.

Dust. Money. Down with your duft; depofit the money.
To raife or kick up a duft ; to make a difturbance or riot :
fee Breeze. Daft it away ; drink about.

Dustman. A dead man : your father is a duftman.

Dutch Comfort. Thank God it is no worfe.

Dutch Concert. Where everyone plays or fings a dif-
ferent tune.

Dutch Feast. Where the entertainer gets drunk before his
guefts.

Dutch Reckoning, or Alle-mal. A verbal or lump
account, without particulars, as brought at fpunging or
bawdy houfes.

Dutchess. A woman enjoyed with her pattens on, or by a
man in boots, is faid to be made a dutchefs.

Drs hard, or game. To dye hard, is to (hew no figns of
fear or contrition at the gallows ; not to whiddle or fqueak.
This advice is frequently given to felons going to fuflfer the
kw, by their old comrades, anxious for the honour of the
gang.

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ARNEST. A tlepoftt in part of payment, to bind a bar-
gain.

Easy. Make the cull eafy or quiet j gag or kill him. As
eafy as pining the bed.

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Easy Virtue- A lady of eafy virtue; an impure or pfofti-
tufc*

Eat. To eat like a beggar man, and wag his under jaw ; a
jocular reproach to a proud man. To eat one's words'; to
retracT what one has faid.

To Edge. To excite, Simulate, or provoke; or, as it is vul-
garly called* to egg a man on. Fail back, fall edge ; i, e.
let what will happen* Some derive to egg on, from the
Latin word, age, agt.

Eight Eyes. I will knock out two of your eight eyes^ a
common Billingfgate threat from one fifh nymph to another:
every woman, according to the naturalifts of that fociety,
having eight eyes ; viz. two feeing eyes, two bub-eyes, a>
bell-eye, two popes-eyes, and: a ***-eye. Me has fallen
down and trod upon his eye ; faid of one who has a Hack
eye*

Elbow Grease. Labour. Elbow greafe wilt make an oafk
table dine*

Elbow Room. Sufficient fpactf to a& in* Out at elbows ;
faid of an eftafe that is mortgaged.

Elbow Shaker* A gamefter, one who rattles Saint Hugh's
bones, u e. the dice*

E?lf. v A fairy or hobgoblin, a little man or woman*

Elizabeths. A fociety for commemorating the anniverfary
of queen Elizabeth, who met at the fign of her head, Hicks's
Hall,, in the room- laid, to be- that whemn- ike received- he*
juvenile education.

Emperor* Drunk as an emperor, i. e. ten times as drunk as
a lord.

English Burgundy. Porter.

Ensign Bearer. A drunken man, who looks red in the face,
or hoifts his colours in his drink.

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EquiPT. Rich; alfo, having new clothes. Well equipt - w
full of money* or well dreffed. The cuif equipped 1 me wirh :
a brace of meggs ; the gentleman furnimed me with a couple
of guineas.

Eriffs* Rogues juft initiated, and beginning to pra&iife*

JLbsbjl Lion* A calf: Effex being famous for calves, and-
chiefly fupplying the London markets.

Ess ex Stile. A ditch : a great part of Effex isfow marihy
ground, in which there aie more ditches than Riles.

Etb&nity Box*. A coffin*

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Evans. Mrs. Evans ; a name frequently given to a (he cart :
owing, a? *t is feid> to a witch of the ^ name of Evans, who
frequently aflumed the appearance of a cat,

Eves* Hen-roofts*

Eve's Custom-house, where Adam made his firft entry.
The mono fy liable.

Eves Dropper. One that lurks about to rob hen-roofts ; alio
a liftener at doors and windows, to hear private conven-
tion.

Evil, A halter* Cant.

Ewe. A white ewe; a beautiful woman. An old ewe, dreft
lamb fafhion ; ah old woman, dreft like a young girl.

Execution Day. Wafhing day.

Expended. Killed : alluding to the gunner's accounts, where-
in the articles confumed are charged under the title of ex-
pended. Sea phrefe.

Eyes and Limbs. The foot-guards were formerly fo called
by the marching regiments, from a favourite execration in
nfe among them, which was, damning their eyes, limbs, and
blue breeches*

Eye-Sore. A difagreeable object. It will be an eye-fore as
long as (he lives ; faid by a man whofe wife was cut fof &
fiftula in ano*

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ACE MAKING. Begetting children* To face it oof;
to perfift in a falfity. No face but his own ; a faying of
one who has no money in his pocket, or no court cards in his
hand.

Facer. A bumper, a glaf& filled fo full as to leave no room
for the lip.

Fadge. It won't fadge; it won't do. A farthing*

To Fag. To beat. Fag the blofs; beat the wench. Cant.

A fqfealfo means a boy of an inferior form or clafs, who alts

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as a fervant to one of a fuperior, who is faid to fag turn — he?
is my fag; whence, perhaps, fagged out, for jaded or tired.
To ftand a good fag ; not to be foon tired.

Fagger. A little boy put in at a window to rob the houfe.

Faggot* A man hired at a mufler to appear as a foldier. To
faggot, in the canting fenfe, means to bind ; an alto Hon to
the faggots made up by the woodmen, which are all bound*
Faggot the culls ; bind the men.

Faithful. One of the faithful; a taylor who gives long
credit. His faith has made him unwhole ; i. e. drafting too
much, broke him.

Fallal ls. Ornaments, chiefly women's, fuch as ribands,
necklaces, &c.

Fallen away from a Horse Load to a Cart Load. A
faying on one grown fat.

Fam Lay. Going into a goldfmith's mop, under pretence of
buying a wedding ring, and palming one or two, by daub-
ing the hand with fome vifcous matter.

Fa ms, or Fambles. Hands. Famble cheats; rings or
gloves. Cant.

To Famgrasp. To (hake hands : figuratively, to agree or
make up a difference. Famgrafp the cove ; {hake hands
with the fellow. Cant.

Family of Love. Lewd women; alfo, a religious feci.

To Fa n. To beat any one. I fanned him fweetly ; I beat
him heartily. .

Fantastically Dressed, with more rags than ribands.

Fart. He has let a brewer's fart, grains and all ; faid of one
who has bewrayed his breeches.

Pifs and fart,
Sound at heart.
Mingere cum bumlis>
Res/aluberrima eft lumbis.

I dare not truft my a fe with a fart ; (aid by a perfon trou-
bled with a loofenefs.

Fart Catcher. A valet or footman, from his walking be*
hind his mafter or miftrefs.

Fartihg Crackers. Breeches.

Fabtleberries. Excrement hanging about the anus.

F a s t n e r,. A warrant.

JTastnbssbs. Bogs,

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Fay.- The laft landed, inned, or flowed, of any fort of mtr-
chandife : fo called by the water-fide porters, carmen, &c.
All the fat is in the fire ; that is, it is all ovey with us ; a
faying uled in cafe of any mi (carriage or difappointment in
an undertaking; an allufionto overturning the frying-pan
into the fire. Fat, among printers, means void fpaces.

As Fat as a Hen in the Forehead. A faying of a mea-
gre perfon.

Fat Cull. A rich fellow.

Fat- h bad id. Stupid.

Faulkner. A tumbler, juggler* or (hewer of tricks: per-
haps becaufe they lure the people, as a faulconer does his ,
hawks. Cant*

Fa y t o r s, or Fat o r s. Fortune tellers.

Fawney Rio. A common fraud, thus praclifed : A fellow
drops a brafs ring, double girt, which he picks up before the .
party meant to be cheated, and to whom he difpofes of it for
lefs than its fuppofed*, and tea times more than its real, value*
See Money Dropper*

Fawney. A ring.

Feague. To feague a* Borfe ; to put ginger up a horfe's fun-
dament, and formerly, as it is find, a live eel, to make him
lively and carry his tail well ; it is {aid, a forfeit is incurred
by any horfe-dealer's fervant, who fhali (hew a hoife without
firft leaguing him.- Feague is ufed, figuratively, for encou-
raging or fpiriting one up.

To Feather one's Nest. To enrich one's felf.

Feather-bed Lane. A rough or ftony lane.

Fee, faw, fum. Nonfenfical words, fuppofed in chtfdidi
ftory-books to be fpoken by giants. I am not to be frighted
by fee, faw, fum ; I am not to be feared by nonfenfe.

Feeder* * A fpoon. To nab the feeder; to fteal a fpoon.

Fe e t. To make feet for children's (lockings ; to beget children.
An officer of feet ; a jocular title for an officer of infantry.^

Feint. A (ham attack on one part, when a real one is meant
at another.

Fellow Commoner. An empty hottle: fo called at the
nniverfity of Cambridge, where fellow commoners are not
in general confidered as over- full of learning. At Oxford
an empty bottle is called a gentleman commoner for the fame
reafon.

Fen. A bawd, or common proftitutc. Cant,

Fence,

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Fence, or Fencing Cully. A receiver of ftolen goods.
To fence ; to fpend or lay out. He fenced his hog ; he fpent
his fhilling. Cant.

Fencing Ken. The magazine, or warehoufe, where ftolen
goods are fecreted.

Ferm*. A hole. Cant.

Fermerdy Beggars. All thofe who have not the (ham fores
or clymes.

Ferrara* Andrea Ferrara ; the name of a famous f word-
cutler : mod of the Highland broad- fwords are marked with
his name ; whence an Andrea Ferrara has become the com-
mon name for the glaymore or Highland broad-fword. See

Glaymore.

Ferret. A tradefman who fells goods to young unthrifty
heirs, at exceflive rates, and then continually duns them for
the debt. To ferret ; to fearch out or expel any one from
his hiding-place, as a ferret drives out rabbits ; alio to cheat.
Ferret-eyed ; red-eyed : ferrets have red eyes.

Fetch.^ A trick, wheedle, or invention to deceive.

Feutkrer. A dog-keeper: from the French vautrier, or
vaultrier, one that leads a lime hound for the chafe.

To Fib. To beat. Fib the cove's quarron in the rumpad
for the lour in his {rang ; beat the fellow in the highway for
the money in his purfe. Cant.— A fib is alfo a tiny lie.

Fice, or Foyse* • A fmall windy efcape backwards, more
obvious to the nofe than ears; frequently by pld ladies
charged on their lap-dogs. See Fizzle.

Fid of Toiacco. A quid, from the fmall pieces of tow
with which the vtnt or touch-hole of a cannon is flopped.
Sea term.

Fiddle. A writ to arreft.

Fiddle Faddle. Trifling difcourfe, nonfenfe* A mere
fiddle faddle fellow ; a trifier.

*

Fiddlestick's End. Nothing : the ends of the ancient fid-
dlefticks ending in a^ point ; hence metaphorically ufed t»
exprefs a thing terminating in nothing.

Fidgets. He has got the fidgets ; faid of one, that cannot fit
long in a place.

Fidlam Ben. General thieves; called alfo St. Peter's font,
having every finger a filh-hook. Cant.

Fiddler's Money. All fixpences : fixpence being the ufual
fum paid by each couple, for mafic at country wakes and

hops.

FIR

hops. Fiddler's fare ; meat, drink, and money. Fiddler'*
pay ; thanks and wine.

Fibld Lane Duck. A baked (heep's'head.

Fieri Facias. A red- faced man is faid to have been ferved
with a writ of fieri facias.

FjGger. A little boy put in at a window to hand out goods
to the diver. . Sec Diver,

Ftgging Law. The art of picking pockets. Cant,

Figure Dancer. One who alters figures on bank notes,
convening tens to hundreds.

Filch, or File l. A beggar's ftafF, with an iron hook at the
end, to pluck clothes from an hedge, or any thing oot of a
cafe merit. Filcher ; the fame as angler. Filching cove ; a
man thief. Filching mort ; a woman thief.

File, File Cloy, or Bungnippbr. A pickpocket. To
file ; to rob or cheat. The file, or bungnipper, goes gene-
rally in company with two affiftants, tne adam tiler, and
another called the bulk or bulker, whofe bufinefs it is to
joftle the perfon they intend to rob, and pufh him againft
the wall, while the file picks his pocket, and gives the booty
to the adam tiler, who fcours off* with it. Cant.

Fin. An arm. A one-finned fellow; a man who has loft as
arm. Sea phrafe.

Fine. Fine as five-pence. Fine as a cow- turd ftuck with
primrofes.

Finger in Eye. To put finger in eye ; to weep : commonly
applied to women. The more you cry the lefs you'll p-fs; a
confolatory fpeech ufed by failors to their doxies. It is as
great a pity to fee a woman cry, as to fee a goofe walk bare*
foot ; another of the fame kind.

Finger Post. A parfon : fo called, becaufe he points out a
way to others which he never goes himfelf. Like the
finger poft, he points out a way he has never been, and pro-
bably will never go, i. e. the way to heaven.

Fi n i s h. The Finifti ; a fmall cofFee-houfe in Coven t- Garden
market, oppofite Ruffel-ftreet, open very early in the morn-
ing, and therefore reforted to by debauchees (hut oot of every
other houfe : it is alfo called Carpenter's coffee- houfe.

Firing a Gun. Introducing a ftory by head and (boulders.
A man, wanting to tell a particular dory, faid to the com-
pany, Hark!- 1 did you not hear a gun ?— but now we are
talking of a gun, I will tell you a ftory of one.

To Fire a Slug. To drink a dram.

Fire

FLU

To Fleece. To rob, cheat, or plunder. •

Flemish Account. A lofing, or bad account*

Flesh Broker. A match-maker, a bawd.

Flibustiers. Weft India pirates, buccanneers, or free-boo-
ters.

Flicker. A drinking-glafs. Cant.

Flickering. Grinning or laughing in a man's face.

Flicking. Cutting;/ Flick me fome panam and caftan ;
cut me fome bread and cheefe. Flick the peter ; cut off the
cloak-bag or portmanteau.

To Fling. To trick or cheat. He flung me fairly out of
it ; he cheated me out of it.

Flints, Journeymen taylors, who on a late occafion refufed
to work for the wages fettled by law. Thofe who fubmitted,
were, by the mutineers, ft y led dungs, i. e, dunghills.

Flip. Small beeri brandy, andfugarj this mxtu re, with the
addition of a lemon, was, by failors, formerly called Sir
Cloudily, in memory of £ir Cloudily Shovel, who ufed fre-
quently to regale himfelf with it.

Floating Academy. See Campbell's Academy.

To Flog. To whip.

Flogger. A horfewhip. Cant.

Flogging Cully. A debilitated lecher (commonly an old
one), whofe torpid powers require Simulating by flagellar
tion.

Flogging Cove. The beadle, or whipper, in Bridewell,

Flogging Stake. The whipping-poft.

Florence. A wench that has been touzed and ruffled.

Flourish. To take a flourifti ; to enjoy a woman in a hafty
manner, to take a flyer. See Flyer.

To Flout. To jeer, to ridicule.

Flummery. Oatmeal and water boiled to a jelly; alfo com-,
piiments ; neither of which are over-nouri(hing.

Flush in the Pocket. Full of money. The cull is flufl*
in the fob ; the fellow is full of money.

Flustered, Drunk.

Flute. The recorder of a corporation; a recorder was an
ancient mqfical inftrument.

To Flux* To cheat, cozen, or over- reach; alfo to ftlivate.
To flux a wig i to put it up in curl, and bake it,

Fly«

F O O

Fly^ A waggon. Cant.

Fly-by-Night. You old fly-by-night; an ancient term of
reproach to an old woman, fignifying that {he was a witch,
and alluding to the nodurnal excurfions attributed to witches,
who were fuppofed to fly abroad to their meetings, mounted
on brooms.

Fly Slicers. Life-guard men, from their fitting on horfe-
back, under an arch,, where they are frequently obferved to
drive away flies with their fwords.

Flyer, To take a flyer ; to enjoy a woman with her clothes
on, or without going to bed.

Flyers. Shoes*

Fly-flapped. Whiptin the flocks, or at the cart's tail.

Flying Camps. Beggars plying in a body at funerals,

Flyino Giggers. Turnpike gates.

Flying Horse, A lock in wreftling, by which he who tifes
it throws his adverfary over his head.

I^ly'ing Pasty. Sirreverence wrapped in paper and thrown
over a- neighbour's wall.

Flying Porters. Cheats who obtain money by pretending
to perfons, who have been lately robbed, that they may come
from a place or party where, and from whom, they may re-
ceive information refpe&ing the goods ftolen from them, and
demand payment as porters.

Flying Stationers. Ballad-fingers and hawkers of penny
hiftories.

Fob. A cheat, trick, or contrivance. I will not be fobbed
offfo; I will not be thus deceived with faife pretences.
The fob is alfo a fmall breeches pocket for holding a
watch.

Fog. Smoke. Cant,

Fogey. Old fogey ; a nick name for an invalid foldier : de-
rived from the French word fougeux, fierce or fiery.

Fog ram. An old fogram ; a fufty old fellow.

Fogus. Tobacco. Tip me a gage of fogus ; give me a pipe
of tobacco. Cant.

Fool. A fool at the end of a flick ; a fool at one end, and a
maggot at the other : gibes on an angler.

Fool Finder. A bailiff.

Foolish. An expreflion among impures, fignifying the cully
who pays, in oppofition to a flafh man. Is he foolifh or flafh ?

M 2 Foot

FOX

Foot Padsj or Low Pads. Rogues who rob on foot*

Foot Wabble it. A contemptuous appellation for a foot fot-
dier, commonly ufed by the cavalry.

Footman's Mawnd. An artificial fore made with unflaked
lime, foap, and the ruft of old iron, on the back of a beg-
gar's hand, as if hurt by the bite or kick of a horfe.

Footy Despicable. A footy fellow, a defpicable fellow:
from the French foutue.

Forb Foot, or Paw. Give us your fore foot; give us your
hand.

Foreman of thb Jury. One who engrofles all the talk to
himfelf, or fpeaks for the reft of the company.

Fork. A pickpocket. Let us fork him; let us pick his
pocket.—' The neweft and moft dexterous way, which is, to

• thruft the fingers ftrait, ftiflj open, and very quick, into

* the pocket 9 and fo clofing them, hook what can be held
' between them.' N* B. This was taken from * book,
written many years ago : doubtlefs the art of picking pockets,
like all others, muft have been much improved fince that
time.

Forlorn Hope. A gamefter's laft flake,

Fortuni Hunters. Indigent men, feeking to enrich them-
felves by marrying a woman of fortune.

Fortune Teller, or Cunning Man. A judge? who tells
every prifoner his fortune, lot, or doom. To go before th#
fortune teller, lambflcin men, or conjurer ; to be tried at an
affize. See Lambskin Men.

Foul. To foul a plate with a man; to take a dinner with
him.

Poul-moutmep. Abufive.

Foundling. A child dropped in the ftreets, and found, and
educated at the parifh expence.

Fox. A fharp, cunning fellow. Alfo ad old term for a fword,
probably a rufty one, or elfe from its being dyed red with
blood : 4bme fay this name alluded to certain f words of re-
markable good temper, or metal, marked with the figure ot
a fox, probably the fign, or rebus, of the maker.

Fox's Paw. The vulgar pronunciation of the French words
faux pds. He made a confounded fox's paw.

Foxed. Intoxicated.

Foxing a BoOt. Mending the, foot by capping it.

FofsT*

FUR

• »

Frigate* A well-rigged frigate ; a well-dreffed wench.

Frisk. To dance the Paddington frifk ; to be hanged.

To Friz, or Frisk. Ufed by thieves to fignify fearching a
perfon whom they have robbed. Blaft his eyes ! friz, or friflc
him.

Froe, or Vroe. A woman, wife, or miftrefs. Brum to your
froe, or bloft, and wheedle for crop ; run to your miftrefs,
. and footh and coax her out of fome money. Dutch*

Froglander. A Dutchman.

Frosty Face. One pitted with the fmall pox.

Frummagemmed. Choaked, ftrangled, or hanged. Cant.

Fubsey. Plump. A fubfey wench; a plump, healthy wench.

To F— k. To copulate.

F— k Beggar. See Buss Beggar.

Fuddle. Drunk. This is rum fuddle ; this is excellent
tipple, or drink. Fuddled ; drunk. Fuddle cap ; a
drunkard.

, Fulhams. Loaded dice are called high and lowmen, or
high and low fulhams, by Ben Jonfon and other writers of
his time ; either becaufe they were made at Fulham, or from
that plaGe being the refort of (harpers.

To Fulk. To ufe an unfair motion of the hand in plumping
at taW. Schoolboy's term*

Full of Emptiness. Jocular term for empty.

Fumbler. An old or impotent man. To fumble, alfo
means to go awkwardly about any work, or manual ope-
ration.

Fun. A cheat, or trick. Do you think to fun me out of
it; do you think to cheat me ? — Alfo the breech, perhaps
from being the abbreviation of fundament. I'll kick your
fun. Cant.

Funk. To fmoke : figuratively, to fmoke or ftink through
fear. I was in a cur fed funk. To funk the cobler; afchool-
boy's trick, performed with aflafcetida and cotton, which
are fluffed into a pipe : the cotton being lighted, and the
bowl of the pipe covered with a coarfe handkerchief, the
fmoke is blown out at the fmall end, through the crannies of
a coble r's ft all.

Furmen. Aldermen.

Furmity, or Fromenty. Wheat boiled up to a jelly. To

fimper

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G A N

It being agreed to play at that game, one fallow perfoliate*
the builder, and another the merchant or contractor : the
builder firft begins by laying the keel, which confifts of a
number of men laid all along on their backs, one after an-
other, that is, head to foot ; he* next puts in the ribs or
knees, by making a number ef men lit feet to- feet, at right
angles to, and on each fide of, the keel : he now fixing on the
perfon intended to be the object of the joke, obferves he is a
fierce- looking fellow, and fit for thp lion ; he accordingly
places him at the head, his arms being held or locked in by
the two perfons next to him, reprefenting the ribs* After
feveral other difpofitions, the builder delivers over the gal-
ley to the contractor as complete : but he, among other
faults and objections, obferves the lion is not gilt ; on which
the builder, or one of his afiiftants, runs to the head, and
dipping a mop in the excrement, thrufts it into the face of
the lion.

Galley Foist* A city barge, ufed formerly on the lord
mayor's day, when he was fworn in at Weftminfter.

G allied. Hurried, vexed, over- fatigued, perhaps like a galley
flave.

Galligaskins* Breeches. .

Gallipot. A nick name for an apothecary.

Gallore, or Golorb. Plenty.

Gallows Bird. A thief> or pickpocket; alfo one that aflb*
ciates with them.

Gambs. Thin, ill-raaped legs: a corruption of the French.
vtoi&jambes.

Gambadoes. Leathern cafes of ftifF leather, ufed in Devon-
{hire inftead of boots ; they are fattened to the faddle, and
admit the leg, fhoe and all : the name was at firft jocularly .
given.

Gambler. A (harper, a tricking gamefter.

Game. Bubbles or pigeons drawn in to be cheated. Alfo, at
bawdy- houfes, lewd women. Mother, have you any game ;
.mother, have you any girls? To die game; to fufier at the
gallows without (hewing any figns of fear or repentance*
Game pullet ; a young whore, or forward girl in the way of
becoming one.

Gam on and Patter. C ommon- place talk of any profeffion ;
as the gamon and patter of a hone-dealer, failor, &c.

Gan. The mouth or lips. Cant.

Cander

GEN

Gander Month. That month in which a man's wife lies
. in: wherefore, during that time, hufbands plead a fort of
indulgence in matters of gallantry.

Gang. A company of meji, a body of failors, a knot of
thieves, pickpockets, &c. A gang of fheep trotters; the four
feet of a fheep.

Gaoler's Coach. A hurdle : traitors being ufually conveyed
* from the gaol, to the place of execution, on a hurdle or
fledge.

Gap Stopper. Awhoremafter.

Gapesejsd. Sights ; any thing to feed the eye. I am come
abroad for a little gapefeed.

Garnish. An entrance fee demanded by the old prifoners of
one juft committed to gaol.

O arret, or Upper Story. The head. His garret,,or upper
ftory, is empty, or unfurniftied ; i. e. he has no brains, he is
a fool.

Garret Election. A ludicrous ceremony, pra&ifed every
new parliament : it confilts of a mock election of two mem-
bers to reprefent the borough of Garret (a few ftraggling
cottages near Wandfworth in Surry) ; the qualification of a
voter is, having enjoyed a woman in the open air within
that diftrict : the candidates are commonly fellows of low
humour, who drefs themfelves up in a ridiculous manner.
As this brings a prodigious concotfrfe of people to Wandf-
worth, the publicans of that place jointly contribute to the
cxpence, which is fometimes confiderable.

Gawkey. A»tall, thin, awkward young manor woman.
'Gazebo. An elevated obfervatcry or fummer-houfe.

Gee, It won't gee; it won't hit or do, it does not fuit or
fit.

Gelding. An eunuch.

Gelt. Money, German, — Alfo, caftrated.

Gentle Craft. The art of fhoemaking. One of the gentle
craft ; a fhoemaker : fo called becaufe once praftifed by St.
Crifpin.

Gentleman Commoner. An empty bottle : ,an umverfity
joke, gentlemen commoners not being deemed over- full of
learning.

GjBMTLeman's Companion. A loufe,

N Gentle*

GIF

Gentleman's Master. A highway robber, becaufe lie
makes a gentleman obey his commands, i. c. ftand and de-
liver.

Gentleman of Three Ins. In debt, in gaol, and in
danger of remaining there for life ; or, in gaol, indited,
and in danger of being hanged in chains.

Gentleman of Three Outs. That is, without money,
without wit, and without manners; fome add another out,
i. e. without credit.

Gentry Cove. A gentleman. Cant*

Gentry Cove Ken. A gentleman's hoafe. Cant.

Gentry Mort, A gentlewoman.

George. A half-crown piece. Yellow George ; a guinea*
Brown George ; an ammunition loaf.

Georges. The brethren of the honourable focicty of Royal
Georges ; a fociety which met at the St. Luke's Head and
Eight Bells, Smithfield.

German Duck. Half a fheep's head boiled with onions.

Get. One of his get ; one of his offspring, or begetting.

Gib Cat. A northern name for a he cat, there commonly
called Gilbert* As melancholy as a gib cat ; as melancholy
as a he cat who has been catterwauling, whence they always
return fcratched, hungry,, and dut^of fpirits. Ariftotle fays,
Omne animaL^sfi coitum eft trifle ; to ^uhich--an anonymous
author has given the following exception : freter gailum, gaU
tinaceum, et JacerdoUm gratis fotnicantcm.

Gibberish. The cant language of thieves and gypfies, called
Pedlars French, and St. Giles's Greek: fee St. Giles**
Greek, Alfo the myftic language of Geber, ufed by chy*
mifts. Gibherifh likewife means a fort of difguifed language,
formed by inferring any confonant between each fyllable of
an Englifh word ; in which cafe it is called the gibberi& of
the letter inferted : if F, it is the F gibberifli ; if G, the G
gibberifh ; as in the fentence, How do you do J Howg dog
youg dog.

Giblets. To join giblets; faid of a man and woman who
cohabit as huiband and wife, without being married ; alfo
to copulate*

Gibson, or Sir John Gibson, A two-legg«d ftool, ufed to
fupport the body of a coach whilft finifhing.

Gifts, Small white fpecks under the finger nails, faid to por-
tend

G I N

ten3 gifts or prefects. A dingy roan is faid to be as full of
gifts as a brazen horfe of his farts.

Gift of the Gab. A facility of fpeech.

Gicg. A nofe. Snitchel. his gigg; fillip his nofe. Grunter's
gigg; a hog's fnout. Gigg is alfo a high one-horfe chaife,
and a woman's privities. To gigg a Smithfield hank J to
hamftring an over-drove ox, vulgarly called a mad bullock*

Gigger.v A latch, or door. Dub the gigger; open the door.
Gigger dubber ; the turnkey of a gaol.

To Giggle* To fupprefs a laugh. Gigglers; wanton wo-
men.

Giles's, or St. Giles's Breed. Fat, ragged* and fausy :
Newton and Dyot ftreets, the grand head-quarters of moft of
the thieves and pickpockets about London, are in St. Giles's
parifh. St. Giles's Greek ; the cant language, called alfo
Slang, Pedlars French, and Flafh.

Gilflurt. A proud minks, a vain capricious woman.

, Gill. The abbreviation of Gillian, figuratively ufed for wo-
man. Every jack has his gill ; i. e. every jack has his, gillian,
or female mate.

Gills. Thecheeks. To look rofy about the gills \ to have
a freih complexion. To look merry about the gills ; to ap-
pear cheerful.

Gilly Gaupus. A Scotch term for a tall awkward fel-
low.

Gilt, or Rum Dubber. A thief who picks locks, fo called
from the gilt or picklock key : many of them are fo expert,
that» from the lock of a church door to that of the fmalleft
cabinet, they will find means to open it : theie go into repu-
table public houfes, where, pretending bufinefs, they contrive
to get into private rooms, up ft airs, where they open any
bureaus or trunks they happen to find there.

Gimblet-eyed. Squinting, either in man or woman.

Gimcrack, or Jimcrack. A fpruce wench; a gimcrack
alfo means a perfon who has a turn for mechanical contriv-
ances.

Gin Spinner. A diftiller.

Gingambobs. Toys, bawbles ; alfo a man's tefticles. See
Thingambobs.

Ginger-pated, or Ginger-hackled. Red haired : a term
borrowed from the cockpit, where red cocks are called
gingers.

N 2 Ginger-

G L O

Gingerbread. A cake made of treacle, flour, and gfa ,T te<J
ginger ; alfo money. He has the gingerbread ; he is rich.

>

Gi ngerbread Work. Gilding and carving : thefe terms are
particularly applied by feamen on board Newcaftle colliers*
to the decorations of the (terns and quarters of Weft-India-
men, which they have the greateft joy in defacing.

Gingerly. Softly, gently, tenderly. To go gingerly to work ;
to attempt a thing gently, or cautioufly*

*

Gin ny. An inftrument to lift up a grate, in order to ileal
what is in the window. Cant.

Girds. Quips, taunts, fevere or biting reflections.

Gizzard. To grumble in the gizzard ; to be fecretly dif-
pleafed.

Glass Eyes. A nick name for one wearing fpec"tacles.

Gl ay more. A Highland broad-fword: from the JLxfegtajrf
or glaive, a fword ; and more, great.

Glaze. A window. Cant,

Glazier. One who breaks windows and mew-glaffes, to ileal
goods expofed for fale. Glaziers; eyes. Cant* — Is your
tether a glazier ; a queftion allied of a lad or young man,
wha ilands between the fpeaker and the candle, or fire, ff
it is anfwered in the negative, the rejoinder is — I wiih he
was, that he might make a window through yqur body, to
enable us to fee the fire or light.

Glib. Smooth, flippery. Glib-tongued ; talkative.

Glim. A candle, or dark lantern, ufed in houfebreaking ;
alfo fire. To glim ; to burn in the hand. Cant,

Glimfenders. Andirons. Cant.
Glim flashy. Angry, or in a paflion. Cant.
•Glim/ack. A link-boy. Cant,
Glimmer. Fire. Cant.

Glimmerers. Perfons begging with fham licences, pretend-
ing loifes by fire.
Glim ms. Eyes.

Glimstick. A candleflick. Cant*
Globe. Pewter. Cant*

Gloves. To give any one a pair of gloves; to make them a
prefent or bribe. To win a pair of gloves; to kifs a man"
whilfl he fleeps ; for this a pair of gloves is due to any lady
who will thus earn tham.

Gluepot.

G O I

G l v e p ot. A parfoti : from j oining men and women together
in matrimony.

Glxtm. Sullen.

Glybe. A writing. Cant.

Go between. A pimp or bawd.

Go by.the Ground. A little fhort perfon, man or Wo-
man.

Go Shop, The Queen's Head in Duke's-court, Bow-ftreef,
Covent-garden ; frequented by the under players : where gin
and water is fold in three -halfpenny bowls, called Goes; the
gin is called Arrack. The go ; the fafhion : as, large hats

- are all the go.

Goads. Thofe who wheedle in chapmen for horfe-dealers.

Goat. A lafcivious perfon. Goats jigg ; making the beaft
with two backs, copulation.

Gob. The mouth ; alfo a bit or morfel : whence gobbets.
Gift of the gob ; wide-mouthed, or one who fpeaks fluently*
* or lings well.

Gob String. A bridle.

'Gobble P— ^k. A rampant, luflful woman.

Gobbler. A turkey cock.

God Permit. A ftage coach : from that affectation of piety,
frequently to be met with in advertifements of ftage coaches
or waggons, where raoft of their undertakings are premifed
with, " if God permit ;" or, " God willing."

Godfather. He who pays the reckoning, or anfwers for the
reft of the company : as, Will you ftand godfather, and we
will take care of the brat ; i. e. repay you another time.
Jurymen are alfo called godfathers, becaufe they name the
crime the prifoner before them has been guilty of, whether
felony, petit larceny, &c.

Gog. All-a-gog; impatient, anxious, or defirous ot* a thing.

Gog and Magog. Two giants, whofe effigies ftand on each
fide of the clock in Guildhall, London ; of whom there is a
tradition, that, when they hear the clock ftrike one, on the
firft of April, they will walk down from their places.

Goggles. Eyes: fee Ogles. Goggle eyes; large promi-
nent eyes. To goggle ; to flare.

Going upon the Dub. Going out to break open, or pick
the locks of, houfes. '

Gold

GOO

Gold Daortu,?. Sharpen who drop a piece of gold, which
they pick up in the prefence of fome unexperienced perfon,
for whom the trap is laid ; this they pretend to hare found,
and, as he faw them pick it up, they invite him to a public
houfe to partake of it : when there, two or three of their
comrades drop in, as if by accident, and propofe cards, or
fome other game, when they fcldom fail of (tripping their
prey.

Gold Finder. One whofc employment is to empty necef-
fary houie* ; called alfo a tom-turd-man, and night-pan :
the latter, from that bufinefs being always performed in the
night.

Golden Fleece. The knights of this ancient and honour-
able order, were a fociety about the year 1749.

Goldfinch. One who has commonly a purfe full of gold.
Goldfinches ; guineas.

Golgotha, or the Place of Sculls. Part of the Theatre
at Oxford, where the heads of houfes (it ; thofe gentlemen
being, by the wits of the univeriity, called fculls.

Gollumfus. A large, clumfy fellow.

Goloshes, i. e. Goliah's (hoes. Large leathern clogs, worn
by invalids over their ordinary (hoes.

Good Ma it. A word of various imports, according to the
place where it is fpoken : in the city it means a rich man 5
at Hockley in the Hole, or St. Giles's, an expert boxer ; at
a bagnio in Covent Garden, a vigorous fornicator ; at an ale-
houfe or tavern, one who loves his pot or bottle ; and fome*
times, though but rarely, a virtuous man.

Good Woman. A nondefcript, reprefented on a famous fign
in St. Giles's, in the form 01 a common woman, but without
a head.

Goodyer's Pig* Like Goodyer's pig; never well but when
in mifchief.

Goose. A taylor's goofe ; a fmoothing iron ufed to prefs down
the (cams, for which purpofe it rauft be heated : hence it is a
jocular faying, that a taylor, be he ever fo poor, is always
lure to have a goofe at his fire. He cannot fay boh to a
goofe ; a faying of a bafhful or fheepi(h fellow.

Goose Riding. A goofe, whofc neck is greafed, being fuf-
pended by the legs to a cord tied to two trees or high pofts,
a number of men on horfeback, riding full fpeed, attempt
to pull off the head ; which if they effeft, the goofe is their

prize.

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prize. This has been pra&ifed ia Derbyihire within ijie
memory of perfons now living*

Gooseberry. He played vp old goofeberry among them;
faid of a perfon who, by force or threats, fuddenly puts an
end to a ript or diftorbance.

Gooseberry-eyed, _ One with dull grey eyes, like boiled
gooieberries.

Gooseberry Wig. A large frizzled wig : perhaps, from a
fuppofed likenefs to a goofeberry bufh.

Goosecap. A filly fellow, or woman*

Goree. Moneys chiefly gold : perhaps from the traffic carried
on at that place, which is chiefly for gold duft. Cant*

Gormagon. A monfter with fix eyes, three mouths, four
arms, eight legs, five on one fide and three on the other,
three arfes, two tarfes, and a **** upon its back ; a man on
horfeback, with a woman behind him.

Got ch-g vtted. Pot-bellied : a gotch in Norfolk fignifying
a pitcher, or large round jug.

To Gouge. To fqueeze out a man's eye with the thumb:
. a cruel practice ufed by the Boftonians in America.

To Grabble. To feize. To grabble the bit; to feize anj
one's money, CanU

Grafted. Cuckolded, i. e, having horns grafted on his
head.

Grannam. Corn.

Grannum's Gold. Hoarded money: fuppofed to have be-
longed to the grandmother of the pbffeffor.

Granny. An abbreviation of grandmother; alfo the name
of an idiot, famous for licking her eye, who died Nov. 149
1719. Go teach your granny to fuck eggs ; faid to fuch as
would inftru& any one in a matter he knows better than
themfclves.

Grapple the Rails. A cant name ufed in Ireland for

whiJkey. ,

Grave Digger. Like a grave digger; up to the a-fe in
bufinefs, and don't know which way to turn.

Gravy-eyed. Blear-eyed, one whofe eyes have a running
humour.

To Grease, To bribe. To greafe a man in the fift ; to
bribe him. To greafe a fat low in the a-fe ; to give to a
rich man* Greafy chin \ a treat given to parifh officers in

part

G R E

part of commutation for a baflard : called alfo, Eating a
child.

Great Intimate. As great as (hire and fhitten a-fe.

C r E A t Jos e p h • A fu rtout. Cant.

Greedy Guts, A covetous or voracious pcrfon.

Greek. St. Giles's Greek; the flang lingo, cant, or gib-

berifh.

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Green. Doclor Green; i. e. grafs : a phyfician, or rather
medicine, found very fliccefsful in curing moft diforders to
which horfes are liable. My horfe is not well, I (hail feni
him to Doftor Green.

Green Bag. An attorney: thofe gentlemen carry their clients*
deeds in a green bag ; and, it is faid, when they have rm
deeds to cany, frequently fiJl them with an old pair of
breeches, or any other trumpery, to give themfelves the ap-
pearance of bufinefs.

Green Gown. To give a girl a green gown; to tumble her
-.on the grafs. '

Green Sickness. The difeafe of maids occafioned by celt*
bacy\

Green head. An inexperienced young man.

Greenhorn. A novice on the town, an undebauched yoong
fellow, jutt initiated into the fociety of bucks and bloods.

Greenwich Barbers. Retailers of fand from the pits at
and about Greenwich, in Kent : perhaps they are ftyled bar-
bers* from their cqnftant (having the fand-banks.

Greenwich Goose. A penfioner of Greenwich Hofpital.

Gregorian Tree. The gallows: fo named from Gregory
Brandon, a famous finifher of the law ; to whom Sir William
Segar, garter king of arms (being irapofed on by Brooke, a
herald), granted a coat of arms.

Grey Bkard. Earthen jugs formerly u(ed in public houfes
for drawing ale : they had the figure of a man with a large
beard damped on them ; whence probably they took their
name : fee Ben J on/on 9 s Plays, Bartholomew Fair, &c, &c.
Dutch earthen jugs, ufed for fmuggling gin on the coafts of
Effex and Suffolk, are at this time called grey beards. •

Grey Mare. The grey mare is the better horfe; faid of ft
woman who governs her hufband.

G r e y Pa r son . A farmer who rents the tithes of the re&or
. or vicar.

Grig*

G R U

Grig. A farthing. A merry grig; a fellow as merry as a
grig: an allufton to the apparent livclinefs of a grig, or
young eel.

Grim* Old Mr. Grim ; death.

Grimalkin* A cat : mawkin fignifies a hare in Scotland.

Gri k. To grin in a glafs cafe ; to be anatomized for murder :
the (keletons of many criminals are preferved in glafs cafes, at
furgeons' hall.

Grinagog, the Cat's Uncle. A fboliih grinning fellow,
one who grins without reafon.

Grinders. Teeth. Godfeberry grinder; the breech. Alk
, bogey, the goofeberry grinder ; aft: mine a-fe.

Groats. To fave his groats ; to come ofFhandfdmely : at the
univerfitiesj nine groats are depofited in the hands of an aca-
demic officer, by every perfon ftandine for a degree ; which
if the depofitor obtains with honour, the groats are returned
to him.

Grog. Rum and water. Grog was firft introduced into the
navy, about the year 1 740, by Admiral Vernon, to prevent
the' failors intoxicating themfelves with their allowance of
rum or fpirits. Groggy, ox groggified ; drunk.

Grog-blossom. A carbuncle, or pimple in the face, caufed
by drinking.

Grogged. A grogged horfe ; a foundered horfe.

Grtjgham. A horfe. Cant.

Grope rs. Blind men; alio midwives.

Ground Sweat. A grave.

Ground Squirrel; A hog* or pig. Sea term.

Grub. Victuals. To grub; to dine. To ride grub ; to be
fullen, or out of temper.

Grub Street. A ftreet near Moorfields, formerly the fup*
. pofed habitation of many perfons who wrote for the book*

fellers : hence a Grub-ftreet writer, means a hackney author,

who manufactures books for the bookfellers.

Grub Street News. Lying intelligence.

To Grubshite. To make foul or dirty.

Grumble. To grumble in the gizzard; to murmur or re-
pine. He grumbled like a bear with a fore head*

Grumbletonian. A difcontented perfon; one who is al-
ways railing at the times, or miniftiy.

Q Grvnter.

G Y B

Gs»unte*, A hog; alfo & (billing. To.grua(; to groan, <w
complain of ficknefs.

Grunter's Gig. A fmoaked hog's face.

Grunting Peck. Pork, bason* op any kind of hog'a fWh.

G.udgbon. Oae eafily impofed on* To gudgeon ; to. f wal-
low the bait, or fall into a, trap : from the fifb. of that name,
which is eafily taken*

Gull* A fimple credulous fellow, eafily cheated.

Gulled. Deceived, cheated* impofed on.

G u llgropers. Ufurers who lend money to the gamefters.

Gum. Abu five language. Come^ let us have no more of your
gum.

Gu mmy. Clumfy : particularly applied to- the ancles of men
or women, and the legs of horfes.

Gumption, or Rum Gumption. DociKty, comprehenfion,
capacity.

Gun. He is in the gun; he is drunk : perhaps from an allu r
fion to a veflel called a gun, ufed for ale in the univerfities.

Gundiquts. A fat, purfy fellow-

Gunner's Daughter. To kifs the gunner's. daughter; to
be tied to a gun and flogged on the pofteriqis : a, mode of
punifhing boys on board a (hip of war.

Gunpowder. An old woman. Cant.

Guts. My great cuts are ready to eat, my little ones; my
guts begin to think my throat's cut ; my guts curfe my teeth :
all expreflions fignifying the party is extremely hungry.

Guts and Garbage. A very fat man or woman. More
^ guts than brains ; a filly fellow. He has plenty of guts* but
no bowels : faid of a hard, mercilefs, unfeeling perfon.

Gut foundered. Exceeding hungry.

Gut Scraper, or Tormentor of Catgut. A fiddler*

Gutter Lane. The throat, the fwallow, the red lane. See
Red Lane.

Gutting a Quart Pot. Taking out the lining of it; i.e.
drinking it off. Gutting an oyfter; eating it. Gutting a
houfe ; clearing it of its furniture*

Guzzle, Liquor. To guzzle; to drink greedily.

Guzzle Guts. One greedy of liquor.

Gybe, or Jybe. Any writing or pafs with a feal.

Gybing. Jeering or ridiculing.

Gyles,

GYP

Gyles, or Giles. Happing Giles; a nick name for a lame
perfon u St. Giles was the tutelar faint of cripples*

Gyp* A college tanner or emnd4>Qy at Cambridge* called at
Oxford a feout. See Scour.

Gypsies A fet of vagrant^ who* to the great difgrace of our
patfce, are fofered to Wander about the country. They
pretend that they derive their origin from the ancient Egyp-
tians* who were famous for their knowledge in arcronomy,
*nd other fttences $ and, under the pretence of fdrfuwe-tell-
tag, And means to rob or defraud trie ignorant and foper-
ftitiou6 to colbur their impoftures, they artificially dif-
fcoloor their faces, and fpeak a kind of jfibberifh peculiar to
thfemfelves* Tfeey rove up and down the country in large
WMnpaftfes, to tbe great terror df the farmers, from whofe
geefe, turkeys, and fowls, they take very confiderable con-
tributions.

^^hen a frefti recruit is admitted into the Fraternity, fee is to
take the following oath, adminifte'red by the principal maun-
/ der, after going through the annexed forms :

Firft, a new name is given him, by which he is ever after to be

. called ; then (landing up in the middle of the alterably* and

directing his face to the dimber damber, or principal man of

the gang, he repeats the following oath, which is dictated

to him oy fome experienced member of the fraternity :

I, Crank Cuffin, do fwear to be a true brother, and that I will
in all things obey the commands of the^reat tawney prince,
and keep his counfel, and not divulge the fecrets of my
brethren.

I will never leave nor forfake the company*, but obferve and
keep all the times of appointment, either by day or by night,
in every place whatever,

I will not teach arty one to cant, nOr will I difclofe ariy of Our
ttiyfteries to them.

I will take my prince's part agaihft all that (hall oppofe him, or
any of us, according to the utmoft of my ability ; hof will I
fiifier him, ofr any one belonging to us, to be abufed by any
ftrange abrams, ruffle rs, hookers, pailliafds, fwadcilers, Irim.
toyles, fwigriieh, whip jacks, jarktnen, bawdy ba(kfets> ddm-
inerars, clapper ddgfcdhs, patricoes, or curtals ; but will de-
fend him, or them, as much as I can, agaihft all other out-
lier* Whatever. I will not Conceal aught I win out of libkths 6r
fr6m thfe ruffmansi but will preferve it for the ufe of the corn- ■
party. Laftiy> t will cleave to my doxy wap ftiffiy, and WH1
bring her diids, margery praters, goblersj grunting cheats* br

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H A R

To Hang an Arse. To hafeg back, to hefitate.

Hang Gallows Look. A thievith, orvillanous appearance.

Hang in Chains. A vile, defperate fellow. Perfons guilty
of murder, or other atrocious crimes, are frequently, after
execution, hanged on a gibbet, to which they are faftenel by
iron bnftfages : die gibbet is commonly ptactd Oh or near tlte
place where the crime was committed.

Hang it ttf* Score it up : (peaking of « reckoning*

Hanger 4 n. A dependant.

Hangman's Wages. Thirteen pence halfpenny ; which, ac-
cording to the vulgar tradition, was thus allotted : one Thil-
liiig for tke execution, and three halfpence for the rope*—
N. B. This refers to former times $ the hangmen of the pre*
lent day having, like other Artificers, raifed their prices.
The true date of this matter is, that a Scottifh mark was the
fee allowed for an execution, and the value of that piece was
fettled by a proclamation of James I. at thirteen pence half-
penny.

Ha n &• He has a hank on him ; i. e. an afcendency over him,
or a hold upon him." A Smith field hank \ an ox rendered
furious by over-driving end barbarous treatment.

Hanker. To hanker after any thing $ to "have a longing after
or for it.

Hanktelo. A filly fellow.

Hans in K elder. Jack in the cellar, i. e. the child in the
womb: a health frequently drank to breeding women or
their hufbands.

Ha* worth a Coper as. A vulgar pronunciation of habeas
corpus.

Hard. Stale beer, nearly four, is faid to be hard. Hard
alfo means fevere ; as, hard fate, a hard mailer.

Hard at his A-se. Clofe after him.

Hare. He has fwallowed a hare; he is drunk; more probably
a hair, which requires warning down.

Hark*ye-iNg» Whifpering on one itde to borrow money*

Harm an. A conftable. Cant.

Harm an Beck. A beadle. Cant.

Harmans. The flocks. Canu

Harp. To harp upon ; to dwell upon a fubiec"t. Have
among you, my blind harpers ; ah expreffion uled in throw-
ing or (hooting at random among a crowd. Harp is alfo the
* Irifli

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H E A

Irifh cxpreffion for woman, o* tail* ufect in toftng »p In
Ireland : from Hibernia being regimented witk a WpjQftthe
reverfe of the copper coins, of that country ; for which reafcfli
it is, in hoifting the copper, 2. e. tolling up, fom*timeA.Uke-
wife called mafic.

Harridan. A hagged old woman; 4 miferaita fcra^gy,
. worn-out harlot, fit to take her bawd's degree : derived from
the French word' baridnile^ a worn-out jade of a horfe or
ma»«
H-arry. A country fellow. Cant>-*-Q\& ftaxry ; the Detfl.

Harxjm scarum. He was running harum fcarum.; faidof
any one running or walking haftily* and in a huu» a/ter
they know not what.

Hash. To flafti the hafh ; to vomit.. Cant.

Hasty. Precipitate, paffidnate. H^ is aone. of the Haftings
fort ; a faying of a flow, loitering fellow : an.allufion to the
Haftings pea, which is the ftrft in feafon.

*Ha»ty PuDorNG. Oatmeal and milk bpUed to a moderate
thicknefs, and eaten with fugar and butter. Figuratively, a
' wet* muddy road : as, The way through Wandfworth is.
quite a hafty pudding. To eat hot hafty pudding for a
laced hat, or fome other prize, is a common feajt at wakes
and fairs,

Hat. Old hat; a woman's privities; becaufe frequently
felt.

Hatches, Under the hatches ■;■ m trouble, diftrefs, or debt,.

Haickbt F'ac». A long- thin fece.

Ha til* Afheep. Cant.

Havt Cavy. Waverings doujbtfuj,, fljUty majly..

Hawk* Ware hawk; the, word tq look fhajrg, a bye-wor4
when a bailiff paflfes. Hawk alfo figuiftes, a (hamper, in appo-
rtion to pigeon. See Pigeon.

Hawke r s. Licenfed itinerant retail of d£ftboen£ commodi-
ties, called alfp pedlars ; likeytifo thjft fellers of news-paper* •
Hawking ; an effort to fpit ud. tie. thick phlegm, called
oyfttrt : whence it is^ wit upon record, to ailp the perfon fo
doing whether he has a licence; a punning allufion to the Att
of hawkers and pedlars.

To Haz th Gili>« To beaj any one with a hazel ftick.

Head Cul^y, q» ths Bass* oj? Fa^sjaab Bank. The top
tilter of that gapg throughout the whole army, wl*o deawnds
and receives contribution from all the jjafs banks ii* tte camp.

IJbad

H E L

Head Rails. Teeth. Seaphrafe.

Hearing Cheats. Ears. Cant.

Heart's Ease. A twenty-lhilling piece; alfo one of the
names for gin.

Hearty Choak*, He will have a hearty choak and caper
fance for breakfaft ; i* e. he will be hanged.

Heathen Philosopher. Que whofe breech may be feen
through his pocket-hole : this faying arofe from the old phi-
Jofophers, many of whom defoifed the vanity of drefs to inch
a point, as often to fall into the oppofite extreme.

To Heave. To rob. To heave a cafe ; to rpb i houfe. To
heave a bough; to rob a booth. Cant.

Heaver. Thebreaft. Cant,

Heavers. Thieves who make it their bufinefs to deal trades-
men's (hop-books. CanK

Hector. A bully, a fwaggering coward* To heftor; to
bully : probably from fuch perfons affecling the valour of
Hector, the Trojan hero.

Hedge. To make a hedge; to fecure a bet, or wager, laid
on one fide, by taking the odds on the other, fo that, let
what will happen, a certain gain is fecured, or hedged in, by
the perfon who takes this precaution ; who is then laid to lie
on velvet.

Hedge Alehouse. A fmall obfeure alehoufe.

Hedge Creeper. A robber of hedges.

Hedge Priest. An illiterate unbeneficed curate, a patrico.

Hedge Whore. An itinerant harlot, who bilks the bagnios
and bawdy-houfes, by difpbfing of her favours on the way-
fide, . under a hedge ; a low beggarly proftitute.

Heels. To be laid by the heels; to be confined, or put in
prifon* Out at heels ; worn, or diminifhed : his eftate or
affairs are out at heels. To turn up his heels; to turn up the

. knave of trumps at the game of alt-fours*

Heel Tap, A peg in the heel of a fboe, taken out when it is
finifhed. A perfon leaving any liquor in his glafs, is fre-
quently called upon by the toaft-mafter to take off his heel-
tap.

Hell. A taylor's repofitorv for his ftolen goods, called cab-
bage: fee Cabbage* Little hell; a fmall dark covered
pafiage, leading from London-wall to Bell-alley*

Hell-born Babe* A lewd gracelefs youth, one naturally of
a wicked difpofition,

Heli,

HID

Hell Cat. A termagant, a vixen, a furious fcolding woman.
See Termagant and Vixen.

Hell Hound. A wicked abandoned fellow.

Helter Skeltek. To run helter (kelter, hand overhead,

in defiance of order.
Hemp. Young hemp ; an appellation for a gracelefs boy.

Hempen Fever. A man who was hanged is faid to have died
of a hempen fever; and, in Dorfetfhire, to have been (tabbed
with a Bridport dagger ; Bridport being a place famous for
manufacturing hemp into cords.

Hempen Widow. One whofe hufband was hanged.

Hen-hearted* Cowardly.

Hen House. A houfe where the woman rules; called alfo a
Jbehoufe, and hen frigate : the latter a fea phrafe, originally
applied to a (hip, the captain of which had his wife on board,
fuppofed to command him.

Henpecked. A hulband governed by his wife, is faid to be
henpecked.

Here and Thereian. One who has no fettled place of refi-
dence. _

Herring* The devil a barrel the better herring; all equally
bad.

Herring -gutted. Thin, as a fhotten herring.

Herring Pond. The fea. To crofs the herring pond at the
king's expence ; to be tranfported.

Hertfordshire Kindness. Drinking twice to the fame
perfon.

Hiccobites. The brethren of this mod ancient and joyous
order, held their general court, Dec. 5, 1750, at the Sun-
tavern, Fifh-ftreet-hill.

Hick. A country hick ; an ignorant clown. Cant.

Hickenbothom. Mr. Hickenbothom ; a ludicrous name for
an unknown perfon, fimilar to that of Mr. Thingambob.
Hickenbothom is a corruption of the German word hken-
baum, i. e. oak tree.

Hi c key. Tipfey ; quafi, hickupping.

Hicksius Doxius. Drunk.

Hide and Seek. A childifh game. He plays at hide and
feek ; a faying of one who is in fear of being arretted for
debt, or apprehended for fome crime, and therefore does not

P chufe

HOB

chuff to appear in public, but fecrctly fltuiks up and clow**
See Skulk.

Hidebound. Stiogy , hard of delivery : a poet poor in in-
vention, is faid to nave a hidebound mufe.

Higgledy piggledy. Confufedly mixed.

High Eating. To eat iky larks in a garret.

High Flyers. Tories, Jacobites.

High Jinks. A gambler at dice, who, having a ftrong head,
drinks to intoxicate his adverfary, or pigeon.

High Li vi nc. To lodge in a garret, or cockloft.

High Pad. A highwayman. Cant.

High Ropes. To be on the high ropes ; to be in a paflion..

High Shook, or Clouted Shoon. A country clown.

High Water. It is high water with him; he i& full of
money.

Highgate. Sworn at Highgate — a ridiculous cuftom for-
merly prevailed at the public houfes in Highgate, to ad-

4 rninifter a ludicrous oaln to all travellers of the middling
rank who (topped there. The party was fworn on a pair of

' horns, fattened on a flick : the fubftance of the oath was,
never to kifs the maid when he could kifs.the raiftrefs, never
to drink fmall beer when he could get ftrong, with many
other injunctions of the like kind ; to all which was added
the faving claufe of, " unlefs you like it bed." The perfon
adminiftering the oath was always to be called father by the
juror ; and he, in return, was to ftyle him fon, under the
penalty of a bottle*.

Hike. To hike off; to run away. Cant.

Hind Leg. To kick out a hind leg ; to make a ruftic bow.

Hinney, my Honey. A north country hinney, particularly:
a Northumbrian ; in that county, hinney is the general term
of endearment.

History of the Four Kings, or Child's Best Guide
to the Gallows. A pack of cards. He ftudies the*
hiftory of the four kings ailiduoufly ; he plays much at cards.

Hqaxing. Bantering, ridiculing. Hoaxing a quiz ; joking
an odd fellow. Um*uetjity <wt.

Ho 3, or Hobbinol. A clown.

Hob or Nob. Will you hob or nob with me I a queftion
formerly in faihion at polite tables, fignifying a requeft or,
challenge to drink a glafs of wine with the propofer j if the

party

HOC

jjatty challenged anfwercd Nob, they were to chufe whethei
white or red. This foolifti cuftom is faid to have originated
in the days of good queen Befs, thus : When great chimnies
were in faihion, there was at each corner of the hearth, or
grate, a fmall elevated projection, called the hob; and behind
it a feat. In winter time the beer was placed on the hob to
wadflpand the cold beer was fet on a fmall table, faid to
have been called the nob : fo that the queftion, Will you have
hob or nob? feems only to have meant, Will you have warm
or cold beer? i. e. beer from the hob, or beer from the
nob*

Hobberdehoy. Half a man and half a boy ; a lad between
both.

Hobbled. Impeded, interrupted, puzzled. To hobble; to
walk lamely.

Hobbledygee. A pace between a walk and a run, a dog-
trot.

Hobby. Sir Pofthumous's hobby; one nice or whimficalia
his clothes.

Hobby Horse. A man's favourite amufement, or fhidy, is
called his hobby horfe. It alfo means a particular kind of
fmall Irifh horfe ; and alfo a wooden one, fuch as is given to
children.

Hobby-hohsical. A man who is a great keeper or rider of
hobby horfes ; one that is apt to be flrongly attached to his
fyftems of amufement.

Hobnail. A country clodhopper: from the {hoes of country
farmers" and ploughmen being commonly ftuck full of hob-
nails, and even often clouted, or tipped with iron. The
Devil ran over his face with hobnails in his (hoes ; faid of
one pitted with the fmall- pox.

Hobson's Choice. That or none : from old Hobfon, a fa-
pous carrier of Cambridge, who ufed to let horfes to the un-
dents ; but never permitted them to chufe, always allotting
each man the horfe he thought propereft for his manner of
riding and treatment.

Hocks. A vulgar appellation for the feet. You have left the
« marks of your dirty hocks on my clean flairs ; a frequent
complaint from a mop-fqueezer to a footman.

Hockey. Drunk with ftrong ftale beer, called old hock. See
Hicksius Doxicrs, andHiCKEY.

Hocking, or Houghing. A piece of cruelty pradifed by
the butchers of Dublin, on foldiers, by cutting the tendon
of Achilles ; this has been by law made felony*.

1 V 2 Hocus

HOI

Hocus Pocus. Nonfenfical words ufed by jugglers, previous
to their deceptions, as a kind of charm, or incantation; A
celebrated writer fuppofes it to be a ludicrous corruption of
the words, hoc eft corpus, ufed by the popifh priefts in conse-
crating the hod. Hocus is alfo ufed to exprefs drunkennefs:
as, he is quite hocus ; he is quite drunk.

Hop. Brother Hod ; a familiar name for a brick&yer's la-
bourer : from the hod which is ufed for carrying bricks and
mortar.

HbDDY Doddy, all A-se and no Boby. A fhort clumfy
perfcn, either male or female.

Hodge. An abbreviation of Roger : a general name for a
country booby.

Hodge Podge. An irregular mixture of numerous things.

Hodmandods. Snails in their (hells.

Hog. A (hilling. To drive one's hogs ; to fnore : the noife,
made by fome perfons in fnoring, being not much unlike the
notes of that animal. He has brought his hogs to a fine
market ; a faying of any one who has been remarkably fuc-
oefsful in his affairs, and is fpoken ironically to fignify the
contrary. A hog in armour; an awkward or mean looking
man or woman, finely dreffed, is faid to look like a hog in
armour. To hog a horfe's mane ; to cut it (hort, fo that
the ends of the hair (land up like hog's brjftles. Jonian hogsj
an appellation given to the members of St, John's College,
Cambridge.

-Hog Grubber. A mean ftingy fellow.

Hoggish. Rude, unmannerly, filthy.

Hogo. Corruption of bant gottft, high tafte, or flavour; com-
monly faid of flefh fomewhat tainted. It has a confounded
hogo ; it (links confoundedly.

Hoist. To go upon the hotft ; to get into windows accident-
ally left open : this is done by the afliftance of a confederate*
called the hoift, who leans his head againft the wall, making
his back a kind of ftep or afcent.

Hoisting, A ludicrous ceremony formerly performed on every
foldier, the firft time he appeared in the field after being
married ; it was thus managed : As foon as the regiment, or
company, had grounded their arms to reft a while, three or
four men of the fame company to which the bridegroom be-
longed, feized upon him, and putting a couple of bayonets
out of the two corners of his hat, to reprefent horns, it was

: placed on his head, the back part foremoft. He was then
hoifted on the (houlders of two flrong fellows, and carried

round

HON

round the arms, a dram and fife beating and playing die
pioneers call, named Round Heads and Cuckolds, but en this
occafion ftyled the Cuckold's March ; in pa fling the colours,
he was to take off bis hat : this, in fome regiments, was prac-
tifed by the officers on their brethren. Homing, among pick*
pockets, is, fetting a man on his head, that his money, watch,
&c. may fall out of his pockets ; thefe they pick up, and hold
to be no robbery. See Reversed.

Hoity-toity. A hoity-toity wench ; a giddy, though tlefs,
romping girl.

Holborn Hill. To ride backwards up Holborn hill; to go
to the gallows : the way to Tyburn, the place of execution
for criminals condemned in London, was up that hill. Cri-
minals going to fuffer, always ride backwards ; as fome con-
ceive, to increafe the ignominy, but more probably to prevent
their being (hocked with a diftant view of the gallows ; as,
in amputations, furgeons conceal the inftruments with which
they are going to operate. The laft execution at Tyburn,
and confequently of this proceflion, was in the year J 784,
fince which the criminals have been executed near JNevv-
gate.

Holiday* A holiday bowler ; a bad bowler. Blind man's
holiday; darknefs, night. A holiday is any part of a (hip's
bottom, left uncovered in paying it. Sea term. It is all
holiday : fee All Holiday.

Holy Father. A butcher's boy of St. Patrick's Market,
Dublin, or other Irifli blackguard ; among whom the excla.
mation, or oath, By the Holy Father (meaning the Pope), is
common.

Holy Lamb. A thorough- paced villain. Irijb.

Holy Water. He loves him as the Devil loves holy water ;
i. c. hates him mortally. Holy water, according to the
Roman Catholics, having the virtue to chafe away the Devil
and his imps.

Hollow. It was quite a hollow thing; i. e. jsl certainty, or
decided bufinefs.

Honest Man. A term frequently uled by fuperiors ^infe-
riors. As honeft a man as any in the cards when all the kings
are put ; i. e. a knave. I dare not call thee rogue for fear of
the law* faid a quaker to an attprney ; but I will give thee
five pounds, if thou canft find any creditable pcrfon who will
fay thou art an hpneft man. . t

Honest

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HOP

How est Woman, To many a woman with whom one hat"
cohabited as a miftrefs, is termed, making an honcft woroeft
of her.

Honey Moon. The firft month after marriage. A poor
honey; a harmlefs, foolifh, good-natured fellow. It is all
honey or all t-r*d with them ; faid of perfons who are either
in the extremity of frietadfhip or enmity, either luffing or
fighting.

H ood-wi nked. Blindfolded by a handkerchief, or other liga-
ture, bound over the eyes.

Hoor. To beat the hoof; to travel on foot. He hoofed it,
or beat the hoof, every ftep of the way from Chefter to Lon-
don*

Hook and* Snivey, with Nix the Buffer. This tig
conflfts in feeding a man and a dog for nothing, and 1*
carried on thus : Three men, one of whom pretends to be
fick and unable to eat, go to a public houfe ; the two well
men make a bargain with the landlord for their dinner, and
when he is out of fight, feed their pretended lick companion
and dog gratis.

Hooked. Over- reached, tricked, caught : a fimile taken from
timing, **•* hooks ; fingers.

Hookers. See Anglers.

Hoof* To run the hoop ; an ancient marine cuftom. Four
or more boys having their left hands tied fad to an iron hoop,
and each of them a rope, called a nettle, in their right, being
Baked to the wafft, wait the fignal to begin ; this being made
by a ftroke with a cat of nine tails, given by the boatTwain
to one of the boys* he ftrike* the boy before him, and every
one docs the fame : at firft the blows are but gently admi.
raftered ; but each irritated by the ftrokes from the boy be-
hind him, at length lays it on in earneft. This was anciently
pra&ifed when a fhip was wind-bound.

To Hoop. To beat. I'll well hoop his or her barrel. I'll
beat him or her found ly.

To Hop the Twig. To run away. Cant,

Hop Merchant. A dancing mafter. See Capir Mer-
chant.

Hop-o-my-thumb. A diminutive perfon, man or woman.
She was fuch a hop o-my thumb, that a pigeon, fitting on her
fbeoidcr, might pick a pea out of her a-fe.

Hopkins.

H O R

Hopkins. Mr. Hopkins; a ludicrous addicts to a lane tic
limping man, being a pun on the word hop'

Hopping Giles. A jeering appellation given to any perfoa
who limps, or is lame : St. Giles was the patron of cripples,
lepers, &c. Churches dedicated to that faint commonly ftani
out of town, many of them having been chapels to hospitals.
See Gyles.

Hopper-arsed. Having large projecting buttocks: from
their refemblance to a fmall bafket, called a hopper, or hopi-
pet, worn by huibandnlen for containing feed corn, when thejr'
fow the land.

Horns. To draw in one's horns; to retract an aflertioa
through fea,r : metaphor borrowed from a fnail, who, on the
apprehenfion of danger, draws in his horns, and retires Id
his fhell.

Horn Colic, A temporary priaplfm.

Horn Fair. An annual fair held at Charlton, in Kent, o*
St. Luke's day, the 1 8th of Oftober. It conlifts of a riotous

» mob, who, after a printed fqmmons difperfed through the ad-
jacent towns, meet at Cuckolds Point, near Depttord, and
march from thence in proceffion, through that town and
Greenwich, to Charlton, with horns of different kinds upoa
their heads ; and at the fair there are fold rams horns, and
every fort of toy m,ade of horn ; even the gingerbread figure*
have horns. The vulgar tradition gives the following hiftoijr
of the origin of this fair : King John, or fome other of oiu?
ancient kings, being at the palace of Eltham, in this neigh- ,
hourhood, and having been out a hunting one day, rambled
from his company to this place, then a mean hamlet ; when
entering a cottage to inquire his way, he was ftruck with
the beauty of the miftrefs, whom he found alone; and having
prevailed over her modefty, the^iulband returning fuddenly*
iurprifed them together ; and threatening to kill them both*
the king was obliged to difcover himfelf, and to compound
for his fafety by a purfe of gold, and a grant of the' land
from this place to Cuckolds roint, befides making the hut
band matter of the hamlet. It is added that, in memory
of this grant, and the occafion of it, this fair was efta-
blilhed, for the fale of horns, and aU forts of goods made
with that material. A fermon is preached at Charlton
church on the fair day,

Horn Mad. A perfon extremely jealous of his wife, is (aid
to be horn mad. Alfo a cuckold, who does not cut or breed
his horns eafily.

Horn Work. Cuckold-making,

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Horiufied. Cuckolded.

Horse Buss, A kifs with a loud fmack ; alfo a bite.

Horse CosfiR. A dealer in horfes: vulgarly and corruptly
pronounced horfe courfer. The verb to cofe wa9 ufed by the
Scots, in the fenfe of bartering or exchanging.

Horse Godmother. A large mafculine woman, a gentle-
manlike kind of a lady.

Horse Ladde r. A piece of WUtfhire wit, which confifts in
fending fome raw lad, or (impleton, to a neighbouring farm-
houfe, to borrow a horfc ladder, in order to get up the
horfes, to finifh a hay-mow.

Horse's Meal. A meal without drinking.

Hosteler, i.e. oat dealer. Hofteler was originally the name
for an inn-keeper \ inns being in old Englifh ftykd hoftels,
from the French fignifying the fame.

Hot Pot. Ale and brandy made hot.

Hot Stomach. He has fo hot a rtomach, that he burns all
the clothes off his back j faid of one who pawns his clothes to
purchafe liquor.

House, or Tenement, to Lit. A widow's weeds; alfq
' an atchievement marking the death of a hulband, fet up on
the outfide of a man (ton: both fuppofed to indicate that the
dolorous widow wants a male comforter.

Hoydon. A romping girl.

Hubble-bubble. Confufion. A hubble-bubble fellow; a
man of confufed ideas, or one thick of fpeech, whofe words
found like water bubbling out of a bottle. Alfo an inftru-
ment ufed for fmoaking through water in the Eaft Indies,
called like wife a caloon, and hooker.

Hubble de Shuff. Coitfufedly. To fire hubble de muffs
to fire quick and irregularly. Old military term.

Hubbub. A noife, riot, or difturbance.

Huckle my Buff. Beer, egg f and brandy, made hot.

Hucksters. Itinerant retailers of provisions. He is in hack-
He rs hands ; he is in a bad way.

To Hue. To lafh. The cove was hued in the nafkin; the
rogue was foundly lamed in bridewell. Cant.

To Hupf. To reprove, or fcold at anyone; alfo to blufter,
bounce, ding, or fwagger. A captain huff; a noted bully.
To ftand the huff; to be anfwerablc for the reckoning in a
public houfe.

Hue.

HUM

Hvo. To hog brown befs ; to carry a firelock, dr fcrve at a
private foldicr. He hugs it as the Devil hugs a witch ;
faid of one who holds any thing as if he was afraid of lofing
it.

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Hugger Mugger. By ftealth, privately, without making
an appearance. They fpent their money in a hugger mugger
way.

Hugotontheonbiquiffinarians. A fociety exifling in
1748.

Hulk v, or Hulking. A great hulky fellow ; an over- grown
clumfy lout, or fellow.

Hulver-headed. Having a hard impenetrable head ; huU
ver, in the Norfolk dialect, fignifying holly, a hard and
folid wood.

To Hum, or Humbug. To deceive, or impofe on one by
fome ftory or device. A humbug; a jocular impof.t ion, or
deception. To hum and haw ; to hefitatc in fpeech, alfo to
delay, or be with difficulty brought to confent to any matter
or bufinefs.

Hums. Perfons at church. There is a great number of horns
in the autem ; there is a great congregation in the church.

Hum Box. A pulpit.

Hum Cap. Very old and ftrong beer, called alfo ftingo. See
Stingo.

Hum Drum. A hum drum Fellow ; a dull tedious narrator,
& bore; alfo a let of gentlemen, who (Bailey fays) ufed to
meet near the Charter Houfe, or at the King's Head in St.
JohnVftreet, who had more of pleafantry, and lefs of :ny ftery,
than the free mafons.

Hum Durgeon. An imaginary i line fs. He has got t^e hum
durgeon, the thickeil part of his thigh is neareit his a-fe ;
i. e. nothing ails him except low fpirits.

H u m b u g "5. The brethren of the venerable fociety of humbugs
< was held at brother Hallam's, in Goodman's Fields. .

Hummer, A great lye, a rapper. See R a p p e r .

Humming Liquor. Double ale, flout pharaoh. See
Pharaoh.

Hummums. A bagnio, or bathing houfe.

Humstrum. A mufical inftrument made of a mopftick, a
bladder, and fome packthread, thence alfo called bladder
and firing, and hurdy gurdy; it is played on like a violin,

Q^ % which

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which is fometimes ludicroufly called a hnmftrum : fome-
times, inftead of a bladder, a tin caniftcr is ufed.

Humf. To hump ; once a fafhionable word for copulation.

Humpty Dumpty. A little humpty dumpty man or wo-
man ; a (hort clumfy perfqn of either fex : alfo ale boiled
with brandy.

To Hunch. To joftle, or thruft. '

Hunch-backed. Hump-backed.

Hunks. A covetous miferable fellow, a mifer ; alfo thcnamo
of a famous bear mentioned by Ben Jonfon.

Hunt's Dog. He is like Hunt's dog, will neither go ta
church nor flay at home. One Hunt, a labouring man at a
fmall town in Shropfhire, kept a maftiff, who on being; Ihut
up on Sundays, whilft his mailer went to church, howled fq
terribly as to difturb the whole village ; wherefore his matter
refolved to take him to church with him : but when he came
to the church door, the dog paving perhaps formerly beea
whipped out by the fexton, refufed to enter ; whereupon
Hunt exclaimed loudly againft his <log's obftinacy, who
would neither go to church nor flay at home. This ihortly
became a bye-word for discontented and whimfical perfons.

Hunting. Drawing in Unwary perfons to pjay.or game.
. Cant.

Hunting the So^uirrel. An amufement praclifed by poft-
boys and flage-coachmen, which confifts in following a one-,
horfe chaife, and driving it before them, paffing clofe to
it, fo as to brufh the wheel, and by other means terrifying
any woman or perfon that may be in it. A man whofe turn
comes for him to drink, before he has emptied his former
glafs, is faid to be hunted.

Hu ntsup. The reveillier of huntfmen, founded on the French
horn, or other inftrumenf.

Hurdy Gurdy. « A kind of fiddly, made perhaps out of a
gourd : at prefent it is confounded with the humftrum. See
Humstrum.

Hurly Burly. A rout, riot, buflle, or confufion.

Hush, Hum the cull ; murder the fellow.

Hush Money. Money given to hum up or conceal a robbery,
theft, or any other offence, or to, take off the evidence from
appearing againft a criminal.

Huskylour. A guinea, or job. Cam.

Hussar-

HYP

Hussar.. leg roll up. A meeting of a club fo called, wa§
advertifed A. D. 1747.

Hussy. An abbreviation of houfewife, bnt now always ufed
as a term of reproach ;' as, How now, huffy ? or, She is a
light huffy.

Huzza. Said to have been originally the cry of the huzzars,
or Hungarian light horfe ; but now the national fhout of the
Englith, both civil and military, in the fea phrafe termed a
cheer ; to give three cheers being to huzza thrice.

Htp, or Hip. A mode of calling to one paffing by. Hip,
Michael, your head's on fire ; a piece of vulgar wit to a red*
haired man*

Hyp. The hypochondriac; low fpirits. He is hypped; he
has got the blue devils, &c.

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ABBER. To talk thick and faft, as great praters ufually
do, to chatter like a magpye ; alfo to fpeak a foreign lan-
guage. He jabbered to me in his damned outlandifh parlez
vous, but I could not underftand him ; he chattered to me in
French, or fome other foreign language, but I could not
underftand h,im.

Jack. A farthing, a fmall bo^yl ferving as the mark for
bowlers, an inft rumen t for pulling off boots.

Jack Adams. A fool. Jack Adams's parifti j Clerkenwell.

Jack at a Pinch. A, poor hackney pa Hon*

Jack in A Box. A iharper, or cheat. '^

Jack in an Office. An infolent fellow in authority.

Jack Ketch. The hangman: vide Derrick and Ketch*

Jack Nasty Face. A fea term, fignifying a common
failor.

Jack of Legs. A tall long-legged man ; alfo a giant, faid to
be buried in Wefton church, near Baldock, in Hertfordlhire,
where there are two ftones fourteen feet diftant, faid to be

Qji the

JAM

the bead aftd feat ftdnet of his grave, Tbi» giant, feyi Sat*
mon, as fame goes, lived in a wood here, and was a great
robber, but a generous one ; for he plundered the rich to
feed the poor : he frequently took bread for this purpofe
from the Baldock bakers, who catching him at an advan-
tage, put out his eyes, and afterwards hanged him upon a
' knoll in Baldock field* At his death he made one requeft,
which was, that he might have his bow and arrow put into
his hand, and on (hooting it off, where the arrow fell, they
would bury him; which being granted, the arrow fell in
. Wcfton churchyard. About ieventy years ago, a very largo
thigh bane was taken out of the church cheft, where it had
lain many years for a (how, and was fold by the clerk to Sir
John Tradefcant, who, it is faid, put it among the rarities
of Oxford,

Jack Pudding, The merry andrew, zany, or jeftcr to a
, mountebank.

Jack Robinson. Before one could fay Jack Robinfon ; a
faying to exprefs a very fhort time, originating from a very
volatile gentleman of that appellation, who would call on
his neighbours, and be gone before his name could be an-
nounced.

Jack Sprat. A dwarf, or diminutive fellow.

Jack Tar. A failor.

Jack Weight. A fat man. . '

Jack Whore. A large mafculine overgrown wench.

Jackanapes. An ape; a pert, ugly, little fellow*.

Jacked. Spavined. A jacked horfe.

Jackmen. See J ark men.

Jacob. A ladder: perhaps from Jacob's dream. Cunts Alto
the common name for a jay, jays being ufually taught to
fay, Poor Jacob ! a cup of fack for Jacob.

Jacobites. Sham or collar fhirts. Alfo partisans for tht
Stuart family : from the name of the abdicated king, n ©.
James or Jacobus. It is faid by the whigs, that God changed
Jacob's name to Ifrael, left the defendants of that patriarch
fhould be called Jacobites.

Jade. A term of reproach to women.

J a o v e. A ditch : perhaps from jakes.

Jail Birds. Prifoners.

Jakes. A houfe of office, a cacatorium.

Jammed. Hanged. Cant*

Janizaries.

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Janizaries. The mob, fomctimei to called; ajfo bailiffs,
their fetters, and followers.

Japanned. Ordained . To he japanned ; to enter into holy
orders, to become a clergyman, to put on the black cloth :
from the colour of the japan ware, which is black,

Jark. A feal.

J ar it m t n • Thofe who fabricate counterfeit pates, licences,
and certificates for beggars*

Jarvis. A hackney coachman.

Jason's Fleece. A citizen cheated of his gold.

Jaw* Speech, difcourfe: Give us none of your jaw; let us
have none of your difcourfe. A jaw-me-dead ; a talkative
fellow* Jaw work; a cry ufed in fairs by the fellers of
nuts.

Jazey. A bob wig.

Idea Pot, The knowledge box, the head. See Knowledge '
Box.

Jxffy. It will be done in a jefFy; it will be done in a (hort
fpace of time, in an inftant.

Jehu. To drive jehu-like ; to drive furioufly : from a king
of Ifrael of that name, who was a famous charioteer, ana
mentioned as fuch in the Bible,

Jem. A gold ring. Cant,

Jemmy Fellow. A fraart fpruce fellow,

J"enny. An inftrument for lifting up the grate or top of a
(how-glafs, in order to rob it. Cant.

Jt * % y c u m m v m b t e . To (hake, towzle, or tumble about,

Jerry Sneak. A henpecked hufband: from a celebrated
character in one of Mr. Foote's plays, reprefenting a man
governed by his wife.

Jessamy. A fmart jemmy fellow, a fopling,

Jesuit. See To Box the Jesuit.

jBsuiTiCAL. fly, evafive, equivocal, Ajefuitical anfwer;
an equivocal anfwer.

Jet. A lawyer. Au tern jet; a parfon,

Jew, An over- reaching dealer, or hard, (harp fellow ; an ex-
tortioner : the brokers behind St. Clement's church in the
Strand were formerly called Jews by their brethren the

taylors.

Jew

• I- N K.

Jew Bail. Inefficient bail: commonly Jews, who for a fura
of money will bail any aclion whatfoever, and juftify, that
is, fwear to their fufficiency ; but, when called on* are not
to be found*

Jew's Eye. That's worth a Jew's eye; a pleafant or agree,
able fight : a faying taken from Shakefpeare.

Jibber: the Kibber. A method of deceiving feamen, by fix-
ing a candle and lantern round the neck of a horfe, one of
whofe fore feet is tied up; th ; s at night has the appearance
of a (hip's light. Ships bearing towards it, run on (hore»
and* being wrecked, are plundered by the inhabitants. This
diabolical device is, it is faid, praclifed by the inhabitants of

• our weftern coafts.

Jig. A trick. A pleafant jig; a witty arch trick. Alfo a
lock or door. The feather-bed jig ; copulation.

Jigger. A whipping- poft. Cant*

Jilt. A tricking woman, who encourages the addrefles of a
man whom (he means to deceive and abandon.

Jilted. Rejected by a woman who has encouraged one's
advances.

Jingle Boxes. Leathern jacks tipped with filver, and hung
with bells, formerly in ufe among fuddle caps. Cant.

Jingle Brains. A wild, thoughtlefs, rattling fellow.

Jinglers. Horfe cofers, frequenting country fairs. Cant.

Ill-fortune, or The Picture of Ill-luck. A nine-
penny piece.

Impost Takers. Ufurers who attend the gaming-tables, and
lend money at great premiums.

Impudent Stealing. Cutting out the backs of coaches,
and robbing the feats.

Impure. A modern term for a lady of eafy virtue.
Inching. Encroaching.

Indies. Black Indies; Newcaftle.

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India Wipe. A filk handkerchief.

Indorser. A fodomite. Tq. indorfe with a cudgel ; to drub
or beat a man over the back with a (lick, to lay cane upon
Abel.

Inexpressibles. Breeches.

Inkle Weavers. Suppofed to be a very brotherly ftt of
people ; * as great as two inkle weavers' being a proverbial
faying.

Inlaid.

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Inlaid; Well inlaid; in eafy circumftances, rich, or well to
pafs.

Innoce nts. One of the innocents ; a weak, or fimple perfbn,
man or woman,

Job. A guinea.

Job's Comfort. Reproof inftead of confolation. *

Job's Comforter. One who brings news of fome additional
mis+orfune.

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Job's Doc k. He is laid up in Job's dock ; i. e. in a -faliva-
tion. The apartments for the foul or venereal patients in
St. Bartholomew's hofpital, are called Job's ward,

Jobation. A reproof.

Jobbernole. The head.

To Job. To reprove or reprehend. Cambridge term.

Jo c k , or Crow dy- headed Joe k . A jeering appellation^for
a north-country feaman, particularly^ collier ; Jock being a
common name, and crowdy the chief food, of the lower
order of the people in Northumberland. - „

To Jock, or Jockum cloy. To enjoy a woman.

Jockum Gage. A chamber-pot, Jordan, looking-glafs, or
member-mug. Cant,

Jogg-trot. To keep on a jogg-trot; to get on with a flow
, but regular pace.

Johnny Bum. A he or jack afs : fo called by a lady that
afFe&ed to be extremely polite and modeft, who would not
iay Jack becaufe it was vulgar, nor afs becaufe it was inde-
cent.

Joint. To hit a joint in carving, the operator muft think of
a cuckold. To put one's nofe out of joint ; to rival one in
the favour of a patron or miftrefs. ..\ '";* :

Jolly, or Jolly Nob. The.head, PIT lu nip your jolly nob
for you ; I'll give you a knock on the Ee&di

Jolly Dog. A merry facetious fellow ; a ban <vi<vaftt 9 who
never flinches from his glafs, nor cries to go home to bed.

Jolter Head. A large head ; metaphorically a llupid fel-
low.

Jordain. A great blow, or flafF. I'll tip him a jordain'if I
tranfnear ; i. e. I'll give him a blow with my ftafF, if I come
near him. Cant.

Jordan; A chamber-pot.

Jorum. A jug, or large pitcher. \

Joseph.

J V M

Joseph. A woman's great coat. Alio, a iheepifh 1>a1hfbl
young fellow : an allufion to Jofcph who fled from Poti-
phar's wife. You are Jofephus rex; yon are jo-king, i.e.
joking.

Jowl. The cheek. Cheek by jowl ; clofe together, or cheek
to cheek.

Irish Ap hi cots. Potatoes. It is a common joke againft the
Irifh veffels, to fay they are loaded with fruit and timber,
that is, potatoes and broomfticks. Irifh a flu ranee ; a bold
forward behaviour : as being dipt in the river Styx was for-
merly fuppofed to render perfons invulnerable, fo it is faid
that a dipping in the river Shannon totally annihilates bafh-
fulnefs ; whence arifes the faying of an impudent Irifhman,
that he has been dipt in the Shannon.

Irish Beauty. A woman with two black eyes.

Irish Evidence. A falfe witnefs.

Irish Legs. Thick leg*, jocularly ftyled the Irifh arms.
It is faid of the Irifh women, that they have a difperifation
from the Pope to wear the thick end of their legs down-
wards.

IitisH Toyles. Thieves who carry about pins, laces, and other
pedlars wares, and under the pretence of offering their goods
to fale> rob houfes, or pilfer any thing they can lay hold
of.

Iron. Money in general. To polifh the king's iron with
one's eyebrows ; to look out of grated or prifon windows,
or, as the Irifhman exprefled them, the iron glafs windows.
Iron doublet; a prifon. See Stone Doublet.

Ironmonger's Shop. To keep an ironmonger's fhop by the
fide of a common, where the (heriff fets one up; to be hanged
in chains. Iron-bound; laced. An iron-bound hat; afilver-
laced hat.

Island. He drank out of the bottle till he faw the ifland :
the ifland is the riling bottom of a wine bottle, which apr-
pears like an ifland in the centre, before the bottle is quit*
empty.

Itchland, or Scratchland. Scotland.

Jug. See Double Jug.

Juggler's Box. The engine for burning culprits in the hand.
Cant.

Jukrum. A licence.

Jumblegut Lane. A rough road or lane.

Jump.

IVY

Jump. The jump, or dining-room jump; a fpecies of robbery
cfFe&ed by afcending a ladder placed by a (ham lamp-lighter,
againft the houfe intended to be robbed. It is fo called, be-
caufe, mould the lamp- lighter be put to flight, the thief who
afcended the ladder has no means of efcape but that of jump-
ing down.

Jumpers. - Perfons who Yob houfes by getting in at the
windows. Alfo a fet of Methodifts eftabliihed in South
Wales.

Juniper Lecture. A round (cold ing bout.

Jury Leg. A wooden leg : allufion to a jury malt, which i«
a temporary fubftitute for a mad carried away by a ftorm, or
any other accident. Sea phrafe.

Jury Mast, Kjourniere maft; i. e# a maft for tKc day or
occafion.

Just. ass* A punning appellation for a juftice.

Ivy Bush. Like an owl in an ivy bufh ; a fimile for a
meagre or weafel-Faced man, with a large wig, or yery
i>u(hy hair.

K.

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K

.ATE. A picklock. *Tis a mm kate ; it is a ctever
, picklock. Cant.

Kb el Bullies. Men employed to load and unload the coal
veflels.

Keelhauling. A punishment in ufe among the Duteh fou
•men, in which, for certain offences, the delinquent is drawn
once, "or oftner, under the fhip's keel ; ludicroufly defined,
undergoing a great hard-ihip.

To Keep. To inhabit. Lord, where do you keep? i. e.
where are your rooms ? Academical phrafe.

Td Ke2p it up. To prolong a debauch. We kept it up
finely laft nighty metaphor drawn from the game ot (buttle-
cock. '

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K E T

Keeping Cully. One who keeps a miftrefs, as he fuppofcs,
for his own ufe, but really for that of the public*

Keffel. A horfe. Weljb.

Kelter. Condition, order. Cutofkelter; out of order*

Kemp's Morris. William Kemp, faid to have been the ori-
ginal Dogberry in Much ado about Nothing, danced a morris
from London to Norwich in nine days; of which he -printed
the account, A, D. 1600, intitled, Kemp's Nine Days Won-
der, &c.

Kemp's Shoes. Would I had Kemp's (hoes to throw after
you. Bift yon/on. Perhaps Kemp was a man remarkable
for his good luck or fortune ; throwing an old (hoe, or (hoes,
after any one going on an important bufinefs, being by the
Vulgar deemed lucky.

Ken. A houfe. A bob ken, or a bowman ken ; a well-fur-
nifhed houfe, alfo a houfe that harbours thieves. Biting the
ken ; robbing the houfe. Cant,

Ken Mil l£r> or Ken Cracker. A houfebreaker. Cant*

Kent-street Ejectment. To take away the ftreet door:
a method praftifed by the landlords in Kent-ftreet, South-
wark, when their tenants are above a fortnight's rent in
arrear.

Kerry Security. Bond, pledge, oath, and keep the money.

Ketch. Jack Ketch ; a general name for the finifhers of the
law, or hangmen, ever Snce the year 1682, when the office
was filled by a famous practitioner of that name, of whom
his wife faid, that any bungler might put a man to death,
but only her hnfband knew how to make a gentleman die
fweetly. This officer is mentioned in Butler's Ghoft, page 54*
publifhed about the year 1682, in the following lines :

Till Ketch ob/erving be was chous'd*
And in his profit t much abus\d 9
In often hall the trilute dunn'd t
To do his office, or refund,

Mr. Ketch had not long been elevated to his office, for the
name of his predecefTor Dun occurs in the former part of
this poem, page 29 :

For you your/elf to acl /quite Dun>
Such ignominy ne'er fa*w the Juti*

The addition of * fquire,' with which Mr. Dun is here dig.
nin>d, is a mark that he had beheaded foine (late criminal
for high treafon ; an operation which> according to cuflom
for time out of mind, has always entitled the operator to that

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diftin&ion. The predecefTor of Dun was Gregory Brandon,
from whom the gallows was called the Gregorian tree, by
which name it is mentioned in the prologue to Mercurius
Pragmaticus, a tragi -comedy afted at Paris, &c. 1641 :

VThis tremblet under the black rod) and he
Doth fear his fate from the Gregorian tree*

Gregory Brandon fucceeded Derrick. Sec Derrick.

Kettle Drums. Cupid's kettle drums; a woman's breads,
called by failors cheft and bedding.

Kettle of Fish. When a perfon has perplexed his affairs
in general, or any particular bufinefs, he is faid to have made
a fine kettle of fifli of it.

Khajbar. The worthy brethren of this order met, A. D.
1749, at the Nag's Head, Tothill-ftreet, Weftminfter.

Kicks. Breeches. , A high kick ; the top of the fafhron. It
is all the kick ; it is the prefent mode. .Tip us your
kicks, we'll have them as well as your lour ; pull off your
breeches, for we mull have them as well as your money. A
kick ; fi xpence. Two and a kick ; half-a-crown. A kick
in the guts ; a dram of gin, or any other fpirituous liquor.
A kick up ; a difturbance, alfo a hop or dance. An odd
kick in one's gallop ; a ft range whim or peculiarity.

To Kick the Bucket. To die. He kicked the bucket one
day ; he died one day.

Kickerapoo. Dead. Negro word.

Kickshaws. French difhes : corruption of quelque chofe*

Kid. A child.

Ki d La y. Rogues who make it their bufinefs to defraud young
apprentices, or errand-boys, of goods committed to their
charge, by prevailing on them to execute fome trifling mef-
fage, pretending to take* care of their parcels till they come
back ; thefe are, in cant terms, faid to be on the kid lay.

Kidder. A foreftaller: fee Crocker. Kidders are alfo
perfons employed by the gardeners to gather peas.

Kiddeys. Young thieves.

Kiddy Nippers. Taylors out of work, who cut off the waift*
coat pockets of their brethren, when crofs^legged on the
board, thereby grabbling their bit. Cant.

Kidnapper. Originally one who ftole or decoyed children
or apprentices from their parents or matters, to fend them to
the colonies ; called alfo fpiriting : but now ufed for all re-
cruiting crimps for the king's troops, or thofe of the Eafl

R 2 India

KIT

India company, and agents for indenting fervants for tfie
plantations, &c#

Kidney. Difpcfition, principles, humour. Of a ftrange
kidney ; of an odd or unaccountable humour. A man of a
different kidney ; a man of different principles.

Kilkenny. An old frize coat.

Kill Care Club. The members of this club, ftyled alfo the
Sons of Sound Senfe and Satisfaction, met at their fortrefc*
the Caftle- tavern, in Pater-noftef-row.

Kill Devil. New dill-burnt rum.
Kill Priest. Port wine-
To Kimbaw. To trick, cheat, or cozen; alio to beat or to
bully. Let's kimbaw the cull ; let's bully the fellow. To
fet one's arms a-kimbaw, vulgarly pronounced akimbo, is
td reft one's hands on the hips, keeping the elbows fquare, and
flicking out Ifrom the body ; an infolent bullying attitude.
Qant s

Kinchin. A little child. Kinchin coes ; orphan beggar boys,
educated in thieving. Kinchin morfs; young girls under
the like circumftances and training. Kinchin morts, or coet
in flates ; beggars children carried at their mothers' backs
in fheets. Kinchin cove; a little man. Cant.

King's Bad Bargain. One of the king's bad bargains; a
malingeror, or foldier who (hirks his duty.

King's Head Inn, or Cheo^uir Inn, in Newgate-
street, The prifon of Newgate.

King John's Men. He is one of king John's men, eight
fcorje to- the hundred; a faying of a little underfized man.

King of the Gypsies. The captain, chief, or ringleader
of the gang of mifrule ; in the cant language called alfo the
upright man.

King's Pictures. Coin, money.

Kingdom Come. He is gone to kingdom come; he U
dead.

Kip. The fkin of a large calf, in the language of the Excife-
office.

Kiss mine A-se. An offer, as Fielding obferves, very fre-
quently made, but never, as he could learn, literally accept-
ed. A kifs mine a-fe fellow ; a fycophant.

Kissi ng Crust. That part where the loaves have touched ia
the oven.

Kit. A dancing- matter : fo called from bis kit or cittern, %

fmall

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fmall fiddle, which dancing-mafters always carry about wifto
them, to play to their fcholars. The kit is like wife the
whole of a foldier's neceffaries, the contents of his knapfack i
and is ufed alfo toexprefs the whole of different commodities;
as, Here, take the whole kit ; i. e. take all.

Kit-cat Club, A fociety of gentlemen, eminent for wit and
learning, wha in the reign of queen Anna and George I.
met at a houfe kept by one Chriftopher Cat. The portrait*
of molt of the members of this fociety were painted by Sir
Godfrey Kneller, of one fize j thence ftill called the kit-cat
fize.

Kitchen Physic Food, good meat roaft or boiled. A
little kitchin phyfic will fet him op ; he has more need of a
cook than a doctor.

Kittle Pitcherinc. A jocular method of hobbling or
bothering a troublefome teller of long (lories : this is done by
contradicting fome very immaterial circunrftance at the be-
ginning of the narration, the objections to which being fettled*
others are immediately ftarted to fome new particular of like
confequence ; thus impeding, or rather not fuffcring him to
enter into, the main dory. Kittle pitchering is often prac-
tifed in confederacy, one relieving the other, by which the
defign is rendered lefs obvious.

Kittys. Efre&s, furniture ; (lock in trade. To feize one**
Kittys ; to take his flicks,

JCnack Shop. Atoy-fhop, a nick-nack-atory,
K n a p p e r's Pol l. A (beep's head. Cant.

Knave in Grain. A knave of the firft rate: a phrafe bor-
rowed from the dyehoufe* where certain colours, are faid to be
in grain, to denote their fuperiority, as being dyed with,
cochineal, called grain. Knave in grain is likewife a pun
applied to a cornfa&or or miller.

Knight of the Blade. A bully.

Knight of the Post. A falfe evidence, one that is ready
• to fwear any thing for hire.

Knight of the Rainbow. A footman: from the variety
of colours in the liveries and trimming of gentlemen of that
cloth,

Knight of the Road, A highwayman.

. Knight of the Sheers. A taylor.

Kntcht of thb Thimble, or Needle. A taylor or ftay-

niaker.

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Kntght of the Trencher. A great eatter.

Knight and Barrow Pig, more hog than gentleman. A
fayiwg of any low pretender to precedency.

Knob, The head. See Nob.

Knock. To knock a woman ; to have carnal knowledge of
her. To knock off; to conclude : phrafe borrowed from
the blackfmith. To knock under ; to fubmit.

Knock me Down. Strong ale or beer, ftingo.

Knot. A crew, gang, or fraternity. He has tied a knot
with his tongue, that he cannot untie with his teeth ; i. e.
he is married.

Knowing Ones. Spbrtfmenon the turf, who, from experi-
ence and an acquaintance with the jockies, are fuppofed $o be

"" in the fecret, that is, to know the true merits or powers of
each horfe ; notwithstanding which it often happens that the
knowing ones are taken in.

Knowledge Box. The head.

Knuckles. Pickpockets who attend the avenues to public
places* to deal pocket-books, watches, &c. a fuperior kind
of pickpockets.. To knuckle to ; to fubmit.

To Knuckle one's Wipe. To ileal his handkerchief.

Knuckle-dab^, or Knucklx-confounders. RuiHcs.

■a.— ■

L.

LAD

JLjACED Mutton. A proftitute.

Lacinc. Beating. 1*11 lace your jacket handfomely*

Ladder. To go up the ladder to reft; to be hanged.

Lady. "A crooked or hump-backed woman.

Lady of Easy Virtue. A woman of the town, an impure,
a proftitute.

Ladybirds, Light or lewd women.

To

L A R

YoLao. To drop, behind, to keep back. Lag laft j the lalfc
of a company.

Lace. Water. Cant*

Lag e of Duds. A bock of linen*

Laid on the Shelf, or Laid up in Lavender. Pawned.

To Lamb, or Lambaste. To beat. Lambpye; a beating:
from lambo*

Lamb's Wool. Apples roafted and put into ftrong ale.

Lambskin Men. The judges: from their robes lined and
bordered with ermine*

Land. How lies the land ? how ftands the reckoning ? Who
has any land in Appleby ? a queftion a&ed the man at whofe
door the glafs Hands long, or who does not circulate it in due
time.

Land Lopbrs, or Land Lubbers. Vagabonds lurking about
the country, who fubfift by pilfering.

Land Pirates* Highwaymen.

Lank Sleeve. The empty floeve of a one-armed man* A
fellow with a lank Heeve ; a man who has loll an arm.

Lansprisado. One who has only two- pence in his pocket.
Alfo a lance, or deputy corporal ; that is, one doing the
duty without the pay of a corporal. Formerly a lancier, or
hbrfeman, who being difmounted by the death of his horfe,
fetved in the foot, by the title'of lanfprifado, wlancepefattt
a broken lance.

Lanthorn-jawed« Thin-vifaged : from their cheeks being
aTmoft tranfparent. Or elfe, lenten jawed ; i. e. having the
jaws of one emaciated by a too rigid observation of Lent.
Dark lanthorn ; a fervant or agent at court, who receives a
bribe for his principal or matter.

Lap. Butter-milk or whey. Cant.

Lareovers for Meddle rs. An anfwer frequently given to
children, or young people, as a rebuke for their impertinent
curiofity, in inquiring what is contained in a box, bundle, or

, any other clofed conveyance : perhaps from a layover, or
turnover, a kind of tart not baked in a pan, but. made tp
contain the fruit by turning one end of the cruit over the
other. Medlar tarts were probably fo made in former
times.

Lark. A boat.

Larry Duoan's Eye Water. Blacking: Larry Dugan wa$
a famous ihoe black at Dublin.

Latch.

LEA

%A?cn. Let In.

Lathy. Thin, flender. A lathy wench; a girl almoft as
(lender as a lath*

Latitat. A nick-name for an attorney : from the name of a
writ.

Lavender. Laid up in lavender ; pawned .

Laugh. To laugh oil the wrong fide of the mouth ; to cry.
I'll make him laugh on the wrong (or t'other) fide of his
mouth.

Launch. The delivery , # or labour, of a pregnant woman ; a
crying out or groaning.

Law. . To give law to a hare ; a fportine term, fignifying to
give the animal a chance of efcaping, oy not fetting on the
dogs till the hare is at fome di (lance ; it is alfo more figura-
tively ufed for giving any one a chance of fucceeding in a
fcheme or project.

Lay. Enterprife, purfuit, or attempt : to be fick of the lay.
It alfo means a hazard, or chance : he Hands a queer lay; i. e.
he is in danger. Cant.

Laystall. A dunghill about London, on which the foil
brought from neceflary houfesis emptied; or, in more tech-
nical terms, where the old gold collected at weddings by the
Tom t— d man, is ftored.

Lazy. As lazy as Ludlam's dog, who leaned againft the wall
to bark. As lazy as the tinker who laid down his budget to
f— t.

Lazy Man's Load. Lazy people frequently take up more
than they can fafely carry, to favc the trouble of coming a
fecond time*

Lazybones. An instrument like a pair of tongs, for old or
very fat people to take any thing from the ground without
(looping.

Leaf. To go off with the fall of the leaf; to be hanged:
criminals in Dublin being turned off from the outfide of the
prifon by the falling of a board, propped up, and moving
on a hinge, like the leaf of a table, trijb term*

To Leak. To make water.

Leaky. Apt to blab ; one who cannot keep a fecret is faid to
be leaky.

Leaping over the Sword; An ancient ceremonial faid to -
conftitute a military marriage. A fword being laid down on
the ground* (he parties to be married joingd hands, when,
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the corporal or ferjeant of the company repeated thefe
words :

Leap rogue, and jump nvhore 9

And then you arc married for evermore*

Whereupon the happy couple jumped hand in hand over the
fword, the drum beating a ruffle; and the parties were ever
after considered as man and wife.

Least in Sight. To play leaft in fight; to hide, keep out
of the way, or make one's felf fca/ce.

Leather. To lofe leather; to be galled with riding on
horfeback, or, as the Scotch exprefs it, to be faddle-fick.
To leather alfo means to beat, perhaps originally with a
ftrap: I'll leather you to your heart's content. Leather,
headed ; ftupid. Leathern conveniency ; term ufed by qua-
kers for a ft age-coach.

Leery. On one's guard. See Pbery.

Left-handed Wi f e. A concubine : an allufion to an ancient
German cuftom, according to which, when a man married
his concubine, or a woman greatly his inferior, he gave her
his left hand.

Leg. To make a leg ; to bow. To give leg-bail and lancj
fecurity ; to run away. To fight at the leg ; to take unfair
advantages : it being held unfair by back-fword players to
ftrike at the lee. < To break a leg ; a woman who has had a
baftard, is faid to have broken a leg.

Leqgsrs. Sham leggers ; cheats who pretend to fell fmuggled
goods, but in reality only deal in old (hop-keepers or damaged
goods.

Lenten Fare. Spare diet.

Letch. A whim of the amorous kind, out of the common
way.

Le vi t b . A prieft or parfon.

To Lib. To lie together. Cant.

Libbege. A bed. Cant.

Lib ben. A private dwell! ng-houfe. Cant.

Libre n. A houfe to lie in. Cant.

To Lick. To beat; alfo to wafh, or to paint flsghtly over.
Ill give you a good lick o' the chops ; I'll give you a good
ftroke or blow oh the face. Jack tumbled into a cow t— d 9
and naftied his beft clothes, for which his father ftept up, and
licked him neatly. — I'll lick you ! the dovetail to which is,
If you lick me all over, you won't mifs > ■

S Lick-

Lit

t.Yfcicsri'rVL*. A^aWfife, or tatebearer.

Lift. To give one -a lift ; to affift. A good hand at a deacj
lift ; a good hand upon an 'emergency. To -lift one's hand to
one's head ; to drink to excels, or to "drink ^raiifc* To lift
■or Taife tme's elbow ; the faint*

liiPT. See Shopi/iete*, *&c.

Lifter* A crutch*

Lie Abed. See Lib*

Light Bob. A foldier of the light infantry company*

Light-tinqerbd* Thievilb, apt to pilfer.

Light-heele d. Swift in running* A light-heeled wench ;
one who is apt. by the flying up of her hcels> to fall flat on
her back, a willing wench.

Lightmans* The day. Cant,

Lightning* Gin*

X, i'l i p xrri a n . A diminutive man or woman : Tf drn GulfiVeVs
travels, written by Dean Swift, where ah imaginary king-
'96m tf dwarfs of that name is defcrfbed.

Lilt White. A chimney-fweeper.

!Limbs* Duke of limbs; a tall awkward fellow*

Limb op the Law. An inferior or pettifogging attorney.

Ltmho. A prifon, confinement.

To Line. A term for the ad of coition between clog and
Kirch.

!Line of the Old Author* A dram of brandy.

Lingo. Language* An outlandifh lingo; a foreign tongue.
The parlezvous lingo ; the French language.

Linen Armourers. Taylors.

Lion. To tip the lion; to fqueeze the nofe of the party
tipped, flat to his face with the thumb. To ihew the lions
and tombs ; to point out the particular curiofities of any
place, to aft the ciceroni : an allufion to Weftminfter Abbey,
and the Tower, where the tombs and lions are (hewn. A
lion is alfo a name given by the gownfmen of Oxford to an
inhabitant or vifitor. It is a (landing joke among the city
wits to fend boys and courftry folks, on the firft of April, to
the Tower-ditch, to fee the lions wafhed*

Liquor. To liquor one's boots ; to drink before a journey : '
among Roman Catholics, to adminiftcr the extreme un&ion.

Little Bahbary. Wapping.

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t-VWfS Basques, A familiar appellation ufed to a little
boy*

]^ittle Clergyman. A young chrmney-rweeper*

Little Ease. A fmall dark cell in Guildhall, London, wljem
diforderly apprentices are confined by the city Chamberlain:
it is caHed Little Eafe, from its being fo low that a la$ can-

, not ftand upright m it.

Little Snakesman. A little boy who gets, into a houfe
through the fink-hole, and then opens the door for his ac-
complices ; he is fo called, from, writhing and twiftirig Hke a
fhake, in order, to work himfelf through the narrow paflfage.

Live Lumber. A term ufed by fajlors, to fignify all landf-
men on board their (hips.

Live Stock. Lice or fleas*

Loa f. To be i$ bad loaf $ ta be in 4 difagreeabk fituation, oJC
in trouble.

Lob. Going on the lob ; going into a, fcop tp jget change fo/
gold, and fecreting fome of the change.

Lob's Pound. A prifon. Dr. Grey, in his notes, on Hudl-
bras, explains it to allude to one. Dojftot Lob, a diflenting
preacher, who ufed to hold forth when conventicles were]
prohibited, and had made himfelf a retreat by means of a
trap-door at the bottom of his pulpit. Qnce being purfued
by the officers of juftice, they followed him through divers
fubterraneous paflages, till they got into a dark cell, from,
whence they could not find their way out, but calling to
fome of their companions, fwore they had got into £.oVs
Pound*

to b cock. A large relaxed penis ; alio a dull inanimate fel-
low.

Lobkin. A houfe to lie ^n; alfo a lodging.

Lob loll ey Bot. A nick name far the furgecm's fervent 0&
board a man of war, fometimes for the uirgeon himself;,
from the water-gruel prefcribed to the fick, which is called
loblolley.

Loboniak Society. A fociety which met at Lob Hall, at
the King ajojd Queen, Norton Falgate, by order of Lob the
Great.

Lqbs.covsr* A difli much eaten at fea, compofed of fait
beef, bifcuit, and onions,, well peppered, and ftewed to-
gether.

LobsteR| A nick name for a foldier ; from the colour of hU
clothes . To boil one's lobfter ; for a churchman to "become

S 2 a foldier ;

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afoldier : lobfters, which are of a bluiih black, being made
red by boiling. I will not make a lobfter-kettle of my **** ;
a reply frequently made by the nymphs of the Point at.
Portsmouth, when requefted by a foldier to grant him a
favour.

Lock. Character. He flood a queer lock; he bore but an
indifferent character* A lock is alfo a buyer of flolen goods,
as well as the receptacle for them.

Loc k Hosp i t al. An hofpital for venereal patients*

Lock up House. A fpunging houfe j a public houfe kept by
fheriffs' officers, to which they convey the perfons they have
arretted, where they praclife every fpecles of impofition and
extortion with impunity. Alfo houfes kept by agents or
crimps, who enlift, or rather trepan, men to ferve the Eaft
India or African Company as folaiers.

Locker am jawed. Thin-faced, or lanthorn-jawedV See
La n thorn-jawed.

Iacksmith's Daughter. A key.

Logs. A watch. He filed a cloy of a Ioge, or fcout; he
picked a pocket of a watch. See Scout.

Loggerhead. A blockhead, or ftupid fellow. We three
loggerheads be; a fentence frequently written under two
heads, and the reader by repeating it makes himfelf the third.
A loggerhead is alfo a double-headed or bar (hot of iron. To
go tologgerheads ; to fall, to fighting.

Loll. Mother's loll ; a favourite child, the mother's .dar-
ling.

Loll Tongue. He has been playing a game at loll tongue ;
he has been falivated.

Lollipops. Sweet lozenges purchafed by children.

To Lollop. To lean with one's elbows on a table.

Lollpoop. A lazy, idle drone.

Lombard Fever. Sick of a lombard fever; ue. of the
idles.

Long. Great. A long price ; a great price.

Long Gallery. Throwing, or rather trundling, the dice the
whole length of the board.

Long Meg. A jeering name for a very tall woman : from
one famous in ftory, called Long Meg of Weftminftcr.

Long Shanks. A long-legged perfon.

Long Shilling. This among hackney coachmen, before the

alteration

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^alteration in the fares, was from the Royal Exchange to the
■: ieaft corner of Catherine-ftrcet in the Strand*

L6ng Stomach* A voracious appetite* #

£ong-tongued. Loquacious, not able to keep a fecret. He
is as long-tongued as Granny : Granny was an idiot who
' could lick her own eye* See Granny*

Long-winded, A long-winded parfon; one who preaches
long, tedious fermons* A long-winded paymafter ; one who
takes long credit*

Loo* For the good of the loo; for the benefit of the company
or community.

Looby* An awkward* ignorant fellow.

Looking as if one could not helf it* Looking like a
Umpleton. or as if one could not fay boh ! to a goofe.

Looking-Glass. A chamber pot* Jordan, or member mug*

Loon, or Lout* A country bumkin, or clown*

Loon slate. Thirteen pence halfpenny*

Loophole. An opening, or means of efcape. To find a
loophole in an aft of parliament ; i. e. a method of evad-
ing it.

Lop-sided. Uneven, having one fide larger or heavier than
the other : boys' paper kites are often faid to be lop-fided*

To Lope. To leap, to run away* He loped down the dan-
cers ; he ran down ftairs*

Lord* A crooked or hump-backed man. Thefe unhappy
people afford great fcope for vulgar raillery ; fuch as> ' Did
•you come ftraight from, home? iffo, you have got con-
* foundedly bent oy the way.' ' Don't abufe the gemman/

. adds a by-ftander, 'lie has been grofsly infulted already;

< don't you fee his back's up ?' Or fome one afks him if the
(how is behind ; ' becanfe I lee,' adds he, < you have the

< drum at your back*' Another piece of vulgar wit is let
loofe on a deformed perfon : If met by a party of foldiers on
their marcfy one of them obferves that that gentleman is on
Jus march too, for he has got his knapfack at his back. It
is faid in the Britifh Apollo, that the title of Lord was firft
given to deformed perfons in the reign of Richard III* from
Several perfons labouring under that misfortune being created
peers by him; but it is more probably derived from th<*
Greek word *o{&»a crooked.

I,ord Mansfield's Tee.th* The chevaux de frize round
the top pf the wall of the King's Bench prifon.

Love*

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l^«-JUGOTnirCi*!Ufe Abajla/d. ■

Lounge. A toiiswawg plaoe, or goffipiog feop» J

Louse. A gentlema&'s companion. He will never knfe a
grey bead, of his owjd> ;_ l?e will neves live Jo, b& old.

Lq,u*e $4®, A black bag woki to Ike hai* Of wig.

Louse House, The round houfe, cage, or any other place of

coftfineweat,
Lovsr Ladder. A ftitch fallen in a flocking.
Louse Land. Scotland.
Louse Trap. A fmall- toothed comb.
Lout. A clumfy ftupid fellow.
Low Pad. A footpad.

Low Tide, oij Low Wat**. When these is no money in a
man's pocket.

L o w r e . Money. Cant.

Lubber. An awkward fellow : a. name, given by failojs to
landfmen.

Luck, ox Good Luck. To tread in a, fijreverence, to be
bewrayed : an allufion to the proverb, Sh-tt-n luck is good
luck.

Lud/s Bulwark. Ludgate pr^fon.

Lugs. Ears or waftles. See Watties*

Lullaby Cheat. An infant. Cant.

Lulhes. "Wet linen. Ga*u

Lu lly Prig g ebb. Thieves who deal wet linen. Cant.

Lumb. Top much.

Lumber. Live lumber; {bldfers oy pafleqgers on board a
(hip are fo called by the failors.

Lumber Troop. A club or fociety of citizens of London.

To Lu^p. To beat ; alfo to include a number of articles
tinder one head.

To Li^mp the Lighter. To be tfanfported.

I^UMftKRs. Perfons who contrail to unload mips ; alfo thieves
wio. lurk about wharfe to pilfer goods from (hips, lignters,

*o» ' " v

Lumping. Great. A lumping pennyworth ; a great quan-
tity for the money, a bargain. F[e has got a lumping
pennyworth j frequently faid of a man who marries a fat
woman.

Lun.

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Lun. Harlequin.

Lurch. To be left in the larch; <eo"be abandoned fey -one*
confederates or party, to be left Hi a fcrape.

Lurched* Thofe who lofe a game of whift, without doling
five, are ftrd to be lurched.

Lurcher. A lurcher of the law; a bam ^bailiff, orchis
fetter.

Lu-rries. Money, watches, rings, or other moveable*.

Lush. Strong "beer,

&jV*. Chamber lye ; wind.

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MAD

M

ACCARONI. An Italian paRe made of flour and <eggt»
Alfo a fop : which name arofe from a club* called the Macs
caroni Club, iriftkated by'fome of the moil drefly travelled
gentleman about 40 wn, -who led the ftfhlons; whence a mtn
foppifhly dreflfed, was fuppofed a mehibe^r of 'th^tfclab, and
by contraction ftyled a Maccaroni.

Ma c *. The mace is a rogue aflu ming fhfe character * of a <gcin*-
tleman, or opulent trade (man, who under that appearance de-
frauds workmen, by borrowing a watch, or other piece of
goods, till one that he befpeaks is done. Cant.

Machines. Mrs. Philips's ware. SeeCuNDUM.

Mackerel. A bawd: from 'the French maqmrel. Mackerel-
backed-; long-backed.

Mad Tom, or Tom op Bedlam, otherwife an Abrara Man,
A rogue that counterfeits madriefs. bant.

Madam. A kept madam ; a kept miftrefs.

Madam Ran. A whore. Cant.

Made. Stolen. Cant.

Ma i>«E. The private :pW ts of a *wdmtra.

Madge Culls. Sodomites* Cant.

Maggot

MAR

Maggot Boix.br: A tallow-chandler.

Maggotty. Whimfical, capricious*

Mahometan Gruel. Coffee: becaufe formerly ufcd chiefly
by the Turks.

Maiden Sessions* A feffions where none of the prifonera
are capitally convicted.

Make. A halfpenny. Cant.

Make Weight, A fmall candle : a term applied to a little
{lender man.

Malingeror. A military term for one who, under pretence
of ficknefs, evades his duty.

Malk^in, ofMaulrin. A general name for a cat; alfo a
parcel of rags fattened to the end of a (tick, to clean an oven ;.
alfo a figure fet up in a garden to fcare the birds ; likewife
an awkward woman.

Malkintrash. One in a difmal garb.

Malmsey Nose. A red pimpled fnout, rich in carbuncles
and rubies.

Maltout. A nick name for a marine, ufed by failors and
foldiers of other corps : probably a corruption of matelot % this
French word for a failor.

Man of the Town. A rake, a debauchee.

Man of the Turf. A horfe racer, or jockey.

Maneuvering the Apostles. Robbing Peter to pay
Paul, i. e. borrowing of one man to pay another.

Man Trap. A woman's commodity.

Ma nufacturb, Liquors prepared from materials of Englifk
' growth.

Mare's Nest* He has found a mare's neft, and is laughing
at the eggs ; faid of one who laughs without any apparent
caufe.

Margery Prater. A hen. Cant.

Marinated. Tranfported to fome foreign plantation.

Marine Officer. An empty bottle : marine officers being
held ufelefs by the feamen. Sea <wiu

Marriage Music The fqualling and crying of children.

Married. Perfons chained or handcuffed together, in order
to be conveyed to gaol, or on board the lighters for tranf-
portation, are in tie cant language faid to be married
together*

Marrow

MEL

Marrow Bombs, The knees. To bring any one down on
his marrow bones ; to make him beg pardon on his knees :
forae derive this from Mary's bones, i, e. the bones bent in

v honour of the Virgin Mary ; but this feems rather far-fetched.
Marrow bones and cleavers; principal instruments in the

r band of rough mufic : thefe are generally performed on by
butchers, on marriages, elections, riding (kimmington, and
other public or joyous occafions.

Marti net. A military term for a drift disciplinarian : from
the name of a French general, famous for reftoring military
difcipline to the French armyr He firft difciplined the
French infantry, and regulated their method of encamp-
ment : he was killed at the fiege of Doefbourg in the year
1672.

Mason's Maund. A (ham fore above the elbow, to counter-
feit a broken arm by a fall from a fcaffold.

Master of the Mint. 'A gardener.

Master of the Rolls. A baker.

Mast e r o f t h b W a r d rob e . One who pawns his clothes €0
purchafe liquor.

Matrimonial Peace-maker, The fugar-ftick, or arbor
vitae.

Maudlin Drunk. Crying drunk : perhaps from Mary Mag-
dalene, called Maudlin, who is always painted in tears.

Mauled. Extremely drunk, or foundly beaten*

Maundering Broth. Scolding*

Maund 1 ng. A (king or begging. Cant.

Ma wiles. A vulgar (lattern.

Maw-wallop. A £lthy compofition, fufficient to provoke
vomiting.

May Bees. May bees don't fly all the yearlong; an anfwer
to any one who prefaces a proportion with, It may he.

Mealy-mouthed. Over modeft or backward in fpeech.

Medlar. A fruit, vulgarly called ah open a-fe; of which it
is more truly than delicately faid, that it is never ripe till it
is as rotten as a t— d, and then it is not worth a fr~t.

Meggs. Guineas. We forked the rum cull's meggs to the
tune of fifty ; we picked tjie gentleman's pocket of full fifty
guineas. Cant.

Mellow. Almoft drunk. . .

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M I L

To Melt* To fpend. Will you melt a borde ? will you
fpend a (hilling? The cull melted a couple of decuffes upon
us ; the gentleman fpent a couple of crowns upon us. Cant.

Me mberMug. A chamber pot.

Me n of Kent. Men born eaft of the river Medway, who are
faid to have met the Conqueror in a body, each carrying a
green bough in his hand, the whole appearing like a moving
wood ; and thereby obtaining a confirmation of their ancient
privileges. The inhabitants of Kent are divided into Kentifh
Men and Men of Kent. Alfo a fociety held at the Fountain
Tavern, Bartholomew Lane* A. D. 1743*

Mercurians. A convivial fociety held in London.

M e r k 1 n. Counterfeit hair for women's privy parts. Sec Bai-
ley's ma.

Merry Andrew, or Mr. Merryman. The jack pudding,,
jefler, or aany of a mountebank, ufually drefled in a party-
coloured coat*

Merry-begotten. A baftard.

Me s s joh n. A Scotch prefbyterian teacher or parfon.

Messmate. One who eats at the fame mefs, companion, or
comerade.

Mettle. The femen. To fetch mettle ; the aft of fejf pol.
lution. Mettle is alfo figuratively ufed for courage.

Mettlesome. Bold, courageous.

Mic h ael. Hip r Michael, your head's on fire. See Hyp.

Midshipman's Watch and Chain. A raeep's heart and
pluck.

Milch Cow. One who is eafHy tricked out of his property :
a term ufed by gaolers, for pnfoners who have money and
bleed freely.

Milk and Watir. Both ends of the bulk.

To Milk the Pigeon* To endeavour at impoflibiiities.

Mill. A chifcL

To Mill. To rob ; alfo to break, beat out, or kill. I'll mill
your glaze ; I'll beat out your eye. To mill a bleating
cheat; to kill a (heep. To mill a ken ; to rob a houfe. To-
mill doll ; to beat hemp in Bridewell. Cant.

Mill Lay. To force open the doors of houfes in order, to-
rob them. Cam.

Miller. A murderer*

Mike

M O N

M&nb A-se on a Bandbox. An anfwcr to the offer of any
thing inadequate to the purpofe for which it is wanted, juft
as a bandbox wculd be if ufed for a feat.

Mini Uncle's. A pawnbroker's ft op; alfo aneceflary hqufe.
Carried to mine uncle's; pawned. New-married men are
alfo laid to go to their uncle, when they leave their wives
foon after the honey moon.

Mini kin. A little man or woman : alfo the fmaHeft fort of
pin.

Minor Clehgy. Yonng chimney fweepers.

Mint. Gold. A mint of money ; common phrafe for a large
fum.

Mischief. A man loaded with mi&hief, i.e. a rtan with
his wife on his back.

Mish. A (hirt, fmock, or (beet* Cant.

Mish Topper. A coat, or petticoat.

Mis s. A mifs or kept mifbrefs ; a harlot.

Miss Laycock. The monofyllable.

Mite. A nick name for a cheefemonger : from the fmall in-
fect of that name found in -cheefe.

Mix Metal. A filverfmith.

Moabites. Bailiffs, or Philiftines.

Mob, or Mab. A wench, or harlot.

Mobility. The mob.: a fort of oppofite to nobility.

Mohair. A man in the civil line, a townfman, or tradefman :
a military term, from the mohair buttons worn by pcrfons of
thofe defcriptions, or any others not in the army, the buttons
of military men being always of metal: this is generally ufed
as a term of contempt, meaning a bourgeois, tradefman, or
mechanic.

Moiety. Half, bat vulgarly ufed to fignify a (hare or por-
tion : as, He will come in for a fmall moiety.

Moll. A whore.

Moll Peatly*s Gig. A rogering bout.

Moll Thompson's Mark.. M. T. i.e. empty: as, Take
away this bottle, it has^Moll Thompfon's mark upon it.

Molly, A Mifs Molly ; an effeminate fellow, a fodoraite.
Monday,. Saint Monday. See Saint.

T 2 Money

M O P

Money. A girl's private parts, commonly applied to little
children : as, Take care, Mifs, or you will {hew your
money.

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Money Droppers. Cheats who drop money, which they
pretend to find juft before fome country lad ; and by way of
giving him a-fhare of their good luck, entice him into a pub-
lic houfe, where they and their confederates cheat or rob him
of what money he has about him.

Mongrel. A hanger on among cheats, a fpunger; alfo a
child whole father and mother are of different countries.

Monks and Friars. Terms ufed by printers: monks are
fheets where the letters are blotted, or printed too black ;
friars, thofe letters where the ink has failed touching the
type, which are therefore white or faint.

Monk&y. To fuck the monkey; to fuck or draw wine, or
any other liquor, privately out of a calk, by means of a ft raw,
or fmall tube. Monkey's allowance ; more kicks than half-
pence. Who put that monkey on horfcback without tying
his legs ? vulgar wit on a bad horfeman.

Monosyllable. A woman's commodity.

Moon Curser. A link-boy : link-boys are faid to curfe the
moon, becaufe it renders their affiftance unneceflary ; thefe
gentry frequently, under colour of lighting paflengers over
kennels, or through dark pajTages, affift in robbing them.
Cant.

Moon-eyed Hen. A fquinting wenchi

Moon Men. Gypfies.

Moon Rakers. Wiltftiire men: becaufe it is faid that fome
men of that county, feeing the reflection of the moon in a
pond, endeavoured to pull it out with a rake.

Moonshine. A matter or mouthful of moonfhine ; a trifle,
nothing. The white brandy fmuggled on the coafts of Kent
and Suffex, and the gin in the north of Yorkfhire, are alfo
called moonftifne.

Mop. A kind of annual fair in the weft of England, where
farmers ufually hire their fervants.

Moped. Stupid, melancholy for want of fociety.

Mopsey. A doudy, or homely woman.

Mop squeezer. A maid fervant, particularly a houfe maid.

Mopusses. Money. °

MORE-ISH.

M O W

More-ish. This wine has bat one fault, and that is, it is
more-ifh : i.e. more of it is wanted, or there is too little of
it.

Morolag. A brown bill, or kind of halbert, formerly carried
by watchmen ; corruption of more, great or broad, and
gla<ve) blade.

Morris. Come, morris off; dance off, or get you gone : allu-
fion to morris, i. e. morifco, or moorifh dancing.

Mort. A woman or wench ; alfo a yeoman's daughter. To
be taken all-a mort ; to be confounded, furprifed, or motion-
. lefs through fear.

Moses. To Hand Mofes ; a man is faid to Hand Mofes when
he has another man's baftard child fathered upon him, and he
is obliged by the parilh to maintain it.

Moss. A cant term for lead, becaufe both are found on the
tops of buildings.

Mossy Face, The mother of all faints.

Mot. A girl, or wench. See Mort.

Moth e r, or Th e Mot her. A bawd. Mother abbefs ; the
fame. Mother midnight ; a midwife* Mother in law's bit ;
a fmall piece, mothers in law being fuppofed not apt to over-
load the ftomachs of their hu (bands children.

Mother of all Saints. The monofyllable.

Mother of all Souls. The fame.

Mother op the Maids. A bawd.

Mouchets. Small patches worn by ladies : from the French
word mouches.

Moveables. Rings, watches, or any toys of value.

Mouse. To fpeak like a monfe in a cheefe ; i. e. faintly or
indiftin&ly.

Mousetrap. The parfon's moufetrap ; the ftate of matri-
mony.

Mouth. A noify fellow. Mouth half cocked ; one gaping
and flaring at every thing he fees. To make any one laugh
on the wrong or t'other fide of his mouth ; to make him cry
or grieve.

• To Mow. A Scotch word for the aft of-copulation.

Mow Heater. A drover: from their frequent fleeping on hay
mows. Cant.

Mowe,r. A cow.

Muck*

M U R

Muck. Money ; alfo dung.

Muckworm. A mifer.

Muckinder. A child's handkerchief tied to the fide.

Mud. A fool, or thick- fculled fellow 5 alfo, among printer*,
the fame as dung among journeymen tayiors. See E)u ng.

Mud Lark. A hog.

Muff. The private parts of a woman. To the well wearing
of your mutt, mort ; to the happy confummation of your
marriage, girl ; a health.

Muffling Cheat. A napkin.

Muggletonians. The fed or difciples of Lodowick Mug-
gleton.

Mulligrubs. Sick of the mulligrubs with eating chopped
hay ; low-fpirited, having an imaginary ficknefs.

Mum. An interjection directing filence. Mum for that; I
fhall be filent as to that. As mute as Mum chance, who was
hanged for faying nothing ; a friendly reproach to any oneu
who feems Jow-fpirited and filent.

Mumchance. An ancient game like hazard, played with
dice : probably fo named from the filence obferved in playing
at it.

Mum Glass. The monument erected on Fifli-ftreet Hill,
London, in memory of the great fire in 1666.

Mumble a Sparrow. A cruel fport pra&ifed at wakes and
fairs, in the following manner : A cock fparrow whofe wings
are clipped, is put into the crown of a hat ; a man having
his arms tied behind him, attempts to bite off the fparrow's
head, but is generally obliged to defift, by the many pecks
and pinches he receives from the enraged bird.

Mummer. The mouth.

Mumpers. Originally beggars of the genteel kind, but fincc
ufed for beggars in general.

Mumpers Hall. An alehoufe where beggars are harboured.

Mundungus. Bad or rank tobacco : from tnondongo % a Spanifh
word fignifying tripes, or the uncleaned entrails of a beaft,
full of filth.

Muns. The face, or rather the mouth': from the German
word mundy the mouth. Toute his muns ; look at his face.

Mu nSterPlums. Potatoes. Irijh.

Murder. He looked like God's revenge againft murder; he
looked angrily.

Mushroom.

M Y R

M us h r oom. A perfon or family fnddenly raifcd to riches and
eminence : an allufion to that fungus, which ftarts up in a
night*

Music. The watch- word among highwaymen, fignifying the
perfon is a friend, and muft pais unmolefted. Mufic is alfo
an Irifh term, in toiling up, to expiefs the harp fide, or re-
verfe, of a farthing or halfpenny, oppofed to the head*

Mute* An undertaker's fervant, who (lands at the door of a
perfon lying in ilate : fo named from being fuppofed mute
with grief.

Mutton-headed* Stupid* .

Mutton Monger* A man addi&ed to wenching*

Muzzle* A beard.

My nt. See Mint.

Myrmidons* The conftable's affiftants, watchmen, &c.

N.

NAN

INaB, or Nab Cheat* A hat. Penthoufe nab; a large
1 hat.

To Nab. To fcize, or catch unawares. To nab the teize ;
. to be privately whipped* To nab the ftoop ; to Hand in the

Etllory. To nab the ruft ; a jockey terra for a horfc that
ecomes reflive. To nab the fnow ; to ileal linen left out to
bleach or dry. Cant*

Nab Girder, or Nob Girder. A bffcUe*

Nack. To have a nack ; to be ready at any thing, to have a
turn for it.

Nacky. Ingenious.

Nailed* Secured, fixed. He offered me a decus, and I
nailed him ; he offered me a crown, and I flruck- or fixed
. him.

Nanny House* A brothel.

T*

N E G

To Nap. To cheat at dice by fecuring one chance. Alfa
to catch the venereal difeafe. You've napt it ; you are in-
fected.

Na p p i n g. To take any one napping ; i. e. to come upon him
unexpectedly, to find him aileep : as, He caught him nap-
ping, as Morfe caught his mare.

Napper. The head ; alio a cheat or thief.

Napper. of Naps. A (heep dealer. Cant.

Nappy Ale. Strong ale.

N.4SK, or Naskin. A prifon or bridewell. The new nafk 5
Clerkenwell bridewell. Tothil- fields nafk ; the bridewell at
Tothill-ficlds. Cant.

Nation. An abbreviation of damnation : a vulgar term
u(ed in Kent, Soflex, and the adjacent counties, tor very.
Nation good ; very good. A nation long way ; a very long way.

Natty Lads. Young thieves or pickpockets. Cant*

Natural. A miftrefs, a child ; alfo an idiot. A natural fon
or daughter; a love or merry-begotten child, a baftard.

Nay Word. A bye- word, a proverb.

Nazarene Fore top. The foretop of a wig made in Imita-
tion of Chrift's head of hair, as reprefented by the painters
and fculptors.

Nazy. Drunken. Nazy cove or mort ; a drunken rogue or
harlot. Nazy nabs ; drunken coxcombs.

Neb, or Nib. The bill of a bird, and the flit of a pen*
. Figuratively, the face and mouth of a woman ; as, She holds
up her neb ; (he holds up her mouth to be kuTed.

Neck Stamper. The boy who collects the pots belonging
to an alehoufe, fent out with beer to private houfes.

Neck Verse. Formerly the perfons claiming the benefit of
clergy were obliged to read a verfe in a Latin manufcript
pfalter ; this faving them from the gallows, was* termed their
neck verfe : it ,w&. the firft verfe of the fifty-firft pfalm,
Miferere nteiy Sec.

Neck Weed. Hemp.

Needle Point. A (harper.

Negligee. A woman's undrefled gown, vulgarly termed a
neggledigee.

Negroe. A black-a-moor : figuratively ufed for a flave, I'll
be no man's negro; I will be no man's Have.

Negroes

NIG

Negroes Heads. Brown loaves delivered to the (hips* in
ordinary.

Nettled. Teized, provoked, out of temper. He or fhe has
pifled on a nettle ; iaid of. one who is peevilh or out of
. temper.

New College Students* Golden fcholars, filver bache-
lors* and leaden mailers.

New Dkop. The feaffold ufed at Newgate lor hanging cri-
minals ; which dropping down, leaves, them fufpended. By
this improvement, the ufe of that vulgar vehicle* a cart* is
entirely left off.

New Light. One of the new light; a methodift.

Newgate Bik». A thief o* (harper, frequently caged in
Newgate. %

Ne wg at e Sol ic i t o r. A pettyfogging and roguifh attorney,
who attends the gaols to aflift villains in evading juftice.

To Nick. To win at dice, to hit the mark juft in the nick
o£ time* or at the critical moment. .

Nick, Old Nick; the DeviL

Nick Name. A name given in ridicule or contempt : front
the French nom de nique. Nique is a movement of the head
to mark a contempt for any pexfon or thing.

Nick Ninny. A fimpleton.

Nickin, Niket, or Nizey. A foft fimple fellow; alfo a
diminutive of Ifaac.

Nick n ac k?. Toys, baubles, or curiofities.

Nicknackatoby. Atoyfliop.

Nickumpoop, or Nincumpoop. A fbolilh fellow ; alfo one
who netfer faw his wife's ****.

Niffynapfy Fellow. A trifler.

Nig- The clippings of money* Nigging; clipping. Nig-
ler ; a clipper. Cant.

Niggling. Cutting awkwardly, trifling; alfo accompanying
wirh a woman.

Night Magistrate. A conftable.

Nightingale. A foldier who, as the term is, fings out at
the halbcrts. It is a point of honour in fome regiments,
among the grenadiers, never to cry out, or become night-
ingales, whilft under the difcipline of the cat of nine tails j
to avoid which, they chew a bullet.

U Nightman,

N O K

Niohtmar. One whofc bufmefs it is to empty neceffitry"
houfes in London, which is always done in the night : the
operation is called a wedding. See Wedding*

Nig it. A fool : feemingly a corruption and contraction of
the words an idiot.

NigMenog* A very filly fellow.

To Nim. To (leal or pilfer* from the German nemen, to
take* Nim a togeman ; ileal a cloak*

Nimgimmer. A phyfician or furgeon, particularly thoTe who
cure the venereal difeafe.

J^inb Lives* Cats tire faid to have nine lives* and women ten
cats lives*

Nine Shillings. Corruption of nonchalance.

Ninny, or Ninnyhammer. A fimpleton*

Nip* A cheat. Bung nipper ; a cutpurfe.

Nip Cheese* A nick name for the purfer of a fliip'. from
thofe gentlemen being fuppofed fometimes to nip* or dim&
nifli, the allowance of the feamen, in that and every other
article. It is alfo applied to dingy perfons in general.

Nip peri: in. A fmall meafure*

Nipps* The fheers ufed in clipping money*

Nit Squeegee,, i. e. So^ubezer. A hair-dre(Ter*

No catchy mo havy. If I am not caught* I cannot be
hurt. Negro faying*

Nob* The head*

Nob Thatcher.* A peruke-maker.

~ Nock. The breech ; from nock, a notch-.

Noc* y Boy. A dull fimple fellow.

Nod. He is gone to the land of nod j he is afleep.

Noodle* The head.

Noddy* A fimpleton or fool. Alfo a kind of low cart. with,
a (eat before it for the driver, ufed in and about Dublin, ia
the manner of a hackney coach : the fare is juft half that of
a coach, for the fame diftance ; fo that for fixpence one may
have a fet down, as it is called, of a mile and a half, and
frequently a tumble down into the bargain ; it is called a
noddy from the nutation of irs head* Knave noddy ; the
old-fafhioned name for the knave of trumps.

Nokis. A ninny, or fool* John-a-Nokesand Tom-jj-Stiles*
two honed peaceable gentlemen, repeatedly fet together 'by

the

NOT

the ears by lawyers of different denominations : two fiftitious
names formerly ufed in law proceedings, but now very fel-
dom, having for feveral years pad been fupplanud by two
other honed peaceable gentlemen, namely, John Doe and
Richard Roe.

Noll. Old Noll ; Oliver Cromwell.

Non-con. A nonconforming prefbyterian, or any other dif-
fenter.

None-such. One that is unequalled ; frequently applied
ironically*

Nonsense. Melting butter in a wig.

Noozsd. Married, hanged.

Nope. A blow : as; I took him a nope on the coftard.

Norfolk Capon. A red herring.

Norfolk Dumpling. A nickname, or term of jocular re-
proach to a Norfolk man ; dumplings being a favourite food
. in that county. .

North Allertons. Spurs; that place, like Rippon, being
famous for making them.

Northumberland. Lord Northumberland's arms; a black
eye : fo called in the laft century.

Norway Neckloth. The pillory, ufually made of Norway
fir.

Nos e. As plain as the nofe on your face ; evidently to be
feen. He is led by the nofe ; he is governed. To follow one's
nofe; to go ftrait forward. To put one's nofe out of joint ;
to rival one in the favour of any perfon. To make a bridge,
of any one's nofe ; to pafs by him in drinking. To nofe a
ftink ; to fmell it. He cut off his nofe to be revenged of his
face; faid of one who, to be revenged on his neighbour, has
materially injured himfelf,

To Nose. To bully.

Nose Bag. A bag fattened to the horfe's head, in which the
foldiers of the cavalry put the oats given to their horfes :
whence the faying of, I fee the nofe bag in his face ; i.e. he
has been a private man, or rode private.

Nose Gent. A nun.

Nostrum. A medicine prepared by particular perfons only*
a quack medicine.

Notch." The private parts of a woman.

NoTSt He changed his note; he told another fort of a ftory.

U 1 Nozzle,

N Y P

Nozzle. The nofe of a -man or woman*

Nub. The neck; alfo coition.

Nub b inc. Hanging* Nubbing cheat ; the gallows. Nubbing
cove ; the hangman. Nabbing ken ; the feffions houfe.

Nug. An endearing word : as, My dear nug ; my dear love*

Nugging D&sss. An out-of-the-way old-fa fhioned drefs, or
rather a loofe kind of drefs, denoting a courtefan.

Nugging House. A brothel.

To Null. To beat : as, He nailed him heartily.

Numbers. To confult the book of numbers ; a term nfed in
the Houfe of Commons, when, inftead of anfwering or con-
futing a prefling argument, the miniiter calls for a diviiion,
i. e. puts the matter to die vote.

Numbscull. A ftupid fellow.

Nummj. A fham collar, to be worn over a dirty fhirt.

Nu nnery. A bawdy hou fe.

Nupson. A cully, a fool.

To Nurse. To cheat : as, They nurfed him out of it. An
eftate in the hands of truftees, for the payment of debts* is
faid to be at nurfe.

Nuts. It was nuts for them; i. e. it was very agreeable to
them.

Nutcrackers. The pillory: as, The cull peeped through

the nutcrackers.

Nutmegs. Tefticlcs.

Nvp, or Ni p. A half pint, a nip of ale : whence the nipper-
kin, a fmall vefTel.

Nyp Shop. The Peacock in Gray's Inne Lane, where Burton
ale is fold in nyps.

Nypper. A cut-purfe : fo called by one Wotton, who in the
year 1585 kept an academy for the education and perfection
of pickpockets and cut-purfes : his fchqpl was near Billings-
gate, London. As in the drefs of ancient times many people
wore their pnrfes at their girdles, cutting them was a branch
of the light-fingered art, which is now loft, though the name
remains. Maitland, from Stow, gives the following account
of this Wotton : This man was a gentleman born, and fome-
time a merchant of good credit, but fallen by time into
decay : he kept an alehoufe near Smart's Key, near Billingf-
gate, afterwards for. fome mifdemcanor put down. He reared
up a new trade of life, and in the fame houfe he procured

all

N Y P

all the cut-purfes about the city, to repair to his houfe ;
there was a fchool-houfc fet up to learn young boys to cut
purfes : two devices were hung up ; one was a pocket, and
another was a purfe ; the pocket had in it certain counters,
and was hung about with hawks' bells, and over the top did
hang a little facring bell. The purfe had filver in it ; and he
that could take out a counter, without noife of any of the
bells, was adjudged a judicial nypper: according to their
terms of art, zfoyfier was a pick-pocket; a nypper was a pick-
purfe, or cut-purfe.

o.

OCT

Vj/ BE Joyful. I'll rijake you fing O be joyful on the
other fide of your mouth ; a threat, implying the party
threatened will be made to cry. To fing O be eafy ; to ap-
pear contented when one has caufe to complain, and dare
not.

•Oa f. A filly fellow*

Oafish. Simple.

Oak. A rich man, a man of good fubHance arid credit. To
fport oak ; to (hut the outward door of a ftudent's room at
college. An oaken towel; an oaken cudgel. Tq rub a
man down with an oaken towel ; to beat him.

Oats. He has fowed his wild oats; he is (laid, or fober,
having left off his wild tricks.

Oar. To put,in one's oar; to intermeddle, or give an opinion
unalked : as, To be Aire, you muft put in your oar!

Obstropulous. Vulgar mifnoraer of obftreperous : as, I was
going my rounds, and found this here gemman very obftro-
pulous, whereof I comprehended him as an aufpicious par-
fon.

Occupy* To occupy a woman ; to have carnal knowledge of
her.

O c tog o n i a n s . This ancient and honourable order met, Nor*
16) I 75°> a* the Ship and Anchor, Temple Bar.

Odds

ORG

Odds Plut and' her Nails. A Welch oath, frequently
mentioned in a jocular manner by perfons, it is hoped, igno^
rant of its meaning ; which is, By God's blood; and the
nails with which he was nailed to the crofs.

Odd-comi-shortlys. Ill do it one of thefe odd- come-,
(hortlys ; I will do it fome time or another*

Ogles. Eyes. Rum ogles ; line eyes.

Oi l of B a r l e y, or B a r l e y Bro t h . Strong been

Oil or Gladness. I will anoint you with the oil of glad-
xiefs ; ironically fpoken for, I will beat you.

Oil of Stirrup. A dofe the cobler gives hit wife whenever
{he is obftropulous.

Old. Ugly. Cant.

Old Dog at it. Expert, accuftomed. -

Old Hand. Knowing or expert in any bufinefs.

Old Ha ray. A composition ufed by vintners to adulterate
their wines ; alfo the nick-name for the Devil.

Old Ling. See Old Hat*

Old Mr. Gory. A piece of gold.

Old Nick, The Devil ; from Nehn 9 the evil fpirit of the
north.

Old One. The Devil.

Old Pegg. Poor Yorkihire cheefe, made of flammed milk.

Old Roger* The Devil.

Old Stager* One aceuftomed to bufinefs, one who knows
mankind.

Old Toast. A b.riik old fellow. C**r« '

Oliver's Scull. A chamber pot.

^}lli Com pol li. The name of one of the principal rogues of
the canting crew. Cant.

Omnium Gatherum. The whole together: jocular imita-
tion of law Latin.

Oke in Ten. A parfdn : an allufion to his. tithes*

One of us, or One of my Cousins. A woman of thft
town, a harlot. \

Qpen Arse. A medlar. See Medlar.. -

Org a ?r. A pipe. Will you cock your organ ? will you fmoker
your pipe I

Orthodoxy

O Y S

Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy. Somebody explained theft
terms by faying, the firft was a man who had a doxy of hit
own, the fecond a perfon who made ufe of the doxy of an-
the* man.

Osc hives. Bone-handled knives. Cant.

Osmanians. A focicty held at Tunbridge Wells*

Qctler. Oatftealer.

Ottomy. The vulgar word for a fkeleton.

Ottomised. To be ottomifed ; to be difTe&ed. You'll be
fcragged, ottomifed, and grin in a glafs cafe ; you 11 be
hanged^ anatomifed, and your fkeleton kept in a glafs cafe
at Surgeons' Hall.

Oven. A great mouth. The old woman would never hare
looked for her daughter in the oven, had (he not been there
herfelf.

Overseer. A man Handing in the pillory, is, from his ele-
vated fitaation, faid to be made an overfeer.

Out at Heels, or Out at Elbows. In declining cir-
cumftances.

Outrun the Constable. A man who has lived above his
means, or income, is faid to have outrun the conftable.

Out*. A gentleman of three outs. See Gentleman.

Owl. To catch the owl; a trick pra&ifed upon ignorant
country boobies, who are decoyed into a barn under pretence
of catching an owl, where, after divers preliminaries, th«
joke ends in their having a pail of water poured upon their
heads.

Owl in an Ivy Bush. He looks like an owl in-an ivybufh ;
frequently faid of a perfon with* a large frizzled wig, or a
woman whofe hair is d re fifed a-la-blowze.

Owlers. Thofe who fmuggle wool over to France. v

Ox House. He mud go through the ox houfe to bed ; a fay- -
ing of an old fellow who marries a young girl.

Oyes. Corruption of oyez, proclaimed by the crier of all
courts of juftice.

Oyster. A gob of thick phlegm, fpit by a confumptive man;
in law Latin, unum viridum gob bum.

p.

PAN "I

P

'S. To mind one's P's and Q^s; to be attentive to the
main chance.

P. P. C. An inscription on the vifiting cards of our modem
fine gentlemen, fignifying that they have called p$ur prendre
tonge % i. e. ' to take leave.' This has of late been ridiculed
by cards inferibed D. I. O. i. e. < Damme, I'm off.'

Packet. A falfe report.

Packthread. To talk packthread; to ufe indecent lan-
guage well wrapt up.

Pad. The highway, or a robber thereon ; alfo a bed. Foot
pads ; foot robbers. To go out upon the pad ; to go out ia
order to commit a robbery.

Pad Borrowers. Horfe dealers.

To Pad the Hoof. See To Beat the H#of.

Padding-Ton Fair Day. An execution day, Tyburn being
in the parifti or neighbourhood of Paddington. To dance the
Paddington f rifle ; to be hanged.

Paddy. The general name of an Irimman : being the ab-
breviation of Patrick* the name of the tutelar faint of that
ill and.

Painter. I'll cut your painter for you; I'll fend you off ;
the painter being the rope that holds the boat fail to the fhip.
Sea term.

Pair of Wings. Oars. Cant.

To Palaver. To flatter: originally an African word for a
treaty, talk, or conference.

Palliards. Thofe whofe fathers were clapperdogeons, or
beggars born, and who themfelves follow the fame trade :
the female fort beg with a number of children, borrowing
them, if they have not a fufficient number of their own, and
making them cry by pinching, in order to excite charity;
the males make artificial fores on different parts of their
bodies, to move companion.

Pam. The knave of clubs,

Pannam. Bread.

Pannier Man. A fervant belonging to the Temple and

Gray's

PAR

Gray's Ian, whofe office is to announce the dinner. This,
in the Temple, is done by blowing a horn ; and in Gray's '
Ian, proclaiming the word Manger, Manger, Manger, in
each of the three courts.

Fanny, A houfe. To do a panriy ; to rob a houfe, See the
Seffions Papers. Probably, panny originally meant the

v butler's pantry, where the knives and forks, fpoons, &c, aie
ufually kept. Cant.

Ranter, A hart : that animal is, in the Pfalms, (aid to pant
, after the frem water-brooks. Alfo the human heart, which
frequently pants in time oi danger* Cant*

Pan til* Shop. A prelbyterian, of other diflenting meet-
ing houfe, frequently covered with pantiles : -called alio a
cock-pit.

Pantlir. A butler.

Pap* Bread fauce; alfo the food of infants/ His mouth is
full of pap ; he is dill a baby.

Paper Scull. A thin-fcull'd fooliih fellow.

Pafler. Milk pottage.

Parbll. Whites of eggs, bay fair* milk, and pump water,
beat together, and poured into a vcflel of wine to prevent its
fretting.

Parenthesis. To put a man's nofe into a parenthefis ; to
pull it^ the fingers and thumb anfwering the hooks or
crochets*

Pari n gs • The ch ipptngs of money. Cant,

Parish. His fiockings are of two pariihes ; i. e. they are not
fellows.

Parish Soldier. A jeering name for a militia man: from
fubftitutes being frequently hired by the paxifh from which
one of its inhabitants is drawn.

Parson. A guide poll, hand or finger poft by the road &4e
for directing travellers ; compared to a parfon, becaufe, like
him, it fets people in the right way. See Guide Post.
He that would have luck in horfe-fleih, mull kifs a parfon 's
wife.

Parson Palmer. / A jocular name, or term of reproach, to
one who flops the circulation of the glafs by preaching over
his liquor ; as it is faid was done by a parfon of that name
whofe cellar was under his pulpit.

Partial. Inclining more to one fide than the other, crooked,
all o' one hugh.

X Pass

P U A

Pass Bank. The place for playing at pafTage, cut into the
ground almoft like a cock-pit. Alfo the flock or fund.

Passage. A camp game with three dice : doublets, making
up ten or more, to pafs or win ; any other chances lofe.

Pat. Appofite, or to the purpofe.

Pate. The head. Carrotty pated ; red-haired.

Patrico, or Pater-Cove. The fifteenth rank of the canting
tribe ; (trolling priefts that marry people under a hedge, with-
out gofpel or common prayer book : the couple (landing on
each fide of a dead bead, are bid to live together till death
them does part ; fo (baking hands, the wedding is ended,
Alfo any minifter or parfon.

Pattering. The maundering or pert replies of fervants;
alfo talk or pallaver in order to amufe one intended to be
cheated. Pattering of prayers ; the confufed found of a num*
ber of perfons praying together.

Patiour's Workshop. The ftreet.

To Pau m. To conceal in the hand. To pawn a die ; to hide
a die in the palm of the hand. He paums; he cheats •
Don't pretend to paum that upon me.

Paunch. The belly. Some think Paunch was the original
name of that facetious prince of puppets, now called Mr,
Punch, as he is always reprefented with a very prominent
belly; though the common opinion is, that both the name
and character were taken from a celebrated Italian comedian,
called Polichenello. *

Paw. A hand or foot: look at his dirty paws. Fore paw;
the hand. Hind paw ; the foot. To paw ; to touch or
handle clurafily.

Paw paw Tricks. Naughty tricks: an expreffion ufed by
nurfes, ,&c to children.

To Pay. To fmear over. To pay the bottom of a fhip or
boat ; to fmear it over with pitch : The devil to pay, and
no pitch hot or ready. Sea /<rrw.— Alfo to beat : as, I will
pay you as Paul paid the Ephefians, over the face .and eyes,
and all your d — d jaws. To pay away ; to fight' manfully,

i N alfo to eat voracioufly. To pay through the nofe ; to pay
an extravagant price.

To Peach. To impeach : called alfo to blow the gab, fqueak,
or turn flag.

Peak. Any kind of lace*

Peal,

PEN

|>£al. To ring a peal in a man's ears; to fcold at him : his
wife rang him fuch a peal !

Pec c avi ; To cry peccavi ; to acknowledge one's fclf in an
c error, to own a fault : from the Latin peccwvl^ I have finned.

Peck. Victuals. Peck and booze ; victuals and drink.

Peckish* Hungry.

Peculiar. Amiftrefs*

Ped. .Abaiket. Cant*

Pedlar's French, The cant language* Pedlar's pony; a
walking-ftick.

To Peel. To ftfip : allufion to the taking off the coat or rind
of an orange or apple.

Peep e r. A fpyirtg-glafs ; alfo a looking-glafs. Track up the
dancers, and pike with the peeper ; whip up flairs, and run
off with the looking-gla fs. Cant.

Peepers. Eyes. Single peeper, a one-eyed mart.

Peeping Tom. A nick name for a curious prying fellow ;
derived from an old legendary tale, told of a taylor of
Coventry, who, when Godiva countefs of Chefter rode at
rioon quite, naked through that town, in order to procure cer-
tain immunities for the inhabitants (notwithftanding the reft
of the people (hut up their houfes) flily peeped out of his win-
dow, for which he was miraculoufly (truck blind. His
figure, peeping out of a window, is ftill kept up in remem*
brance of the tranfaction.

Pee*y. Drowfy, -

, To Pe er. To look about, to be circumfpecl.

Pe E rt . Inquifi ti ve, fufpicious. The cull's peery ; that fel-
low fufpecls fomething. There's a peery, 'tis fnitch ; we
are obferved, there's nothing to be done.

Peg. Old Peg; poor hard Suffolk or Yorklhire cheefe. A
peg is alfo a blow with a ftraight arm : a term-ufed by the
profeffors of gymnaftic arts* A peg in the day-light, the
victualling office, or the hajtering-place ; a blow in the eye,
ftomach, or under the ear.

Peg Tranttjm*s. Gone to Peg Tranturn's; dead*

Pego. The" penis of man or beaft.

Pell-mell. Tumultuoufly, helter (kelter, jumbled together*

Pelt. A heat, chafe, or paffioo ; as, What a pelt he was in !
Pelt is alfo the (kin of feveral beafts.

Pb nance TBqard. The pillory.

X a Penny

P H R

FiftKT wis* Am> Pound foolish. Saving in fmall matfetty
and extravagant ia great. \o\H.

Pen ny worth* An equivalent. A good pennnyworthjji
cheap bargain.

Penthouse Nab. A broad-brim med hat.

Peppered. Infefted with the venereal difeaiev

Peppery. Warm, paffionatc.

Per kin. Water cyder. p

Perriwinkle. A w'tg*

Persuaders. Spurs. ,

Pet. In a pet ; in a pafiion or miff.

Peter. A portmanteau or cloke-bag. Biter of peters ; one
that makes it a trade to (teal boxes and trunks from behind
ftage coaches or out of waggons. To rob Peter to pay Paul j
to borrow of one man to pay another : ftyled alio manoeu-
vring the apoftles.

Peter Gunner, will kill alt the birds that died laft fummer.
A. piece of wit commonly thrown out at a perfbn walking
through a ftreet or village near London* with a gun in his
hand.

Pe ter Lay. The department of dealing portmanteaus, trunks,
&c.

Peter Lug. Who is Peter Lug ? who lets the glafs ftand at
his door, or before him I

Petticoat Hold. One who has an eftate during his wife'*
life, called the apron- ft ring hold.

Petticoat Pens-loner. One kept by a woman for fecret
fervices.

Pfttish. Paffionatc.

Petty fogg er» A little dirty attorney, ready to undertake
any litigious or bad caufe : it is derived from the French
words petit vogue, of fmall credit, of little reputation*

Pharaoh* Strong malt liquor.

Philistines. Bailiffs, or officers of ju ft ice; alfo drunkards*

Philo Draco Sanguinarians. A club that met in Lon-
don.

Phcentx Men. Firemen belonging to an infiirance office*
which gave a badge charged with a phoenix : thefe men were
called like wife fired rakes.

Phrase of Paper. Half a quarter of a (heet, See Vessel*

Phyz*

P 1 G

#:»«• The face. Rum phyz % an odd face or countenance.

Picaroon. A pirate ; alfo a (harper.

Pi C & a n i n y . A young child, an infant. iV>/r» /*m.

Picking. Pilfering, petty larceny.

Pickle. An arch waggifh fellow. In pickle, or in the
pickling tub ; in a faiivation. There are rods in brine, or
pickle, for him ; a punifhment awaits him, or is prepared
for him. Pickle herring ; the zany or merry andfew of a
mountebank. See Jack Pudding.

Pickt Hatch. To go to the manor of pickt hatch ; a cant
name for fome part of the town noted for bawdy-houfes in
Shakefpeare's time, and ufed by him in that fenfe.

Pickthank. A tale-bearer or. roifchief-maker.

Picture Frame. The fheriff's pi&ure frame; the gallows
or pillory.

To Piddle. To make water: a childim expreflion; as.
Mammy, I want to piddle. Piddling alfo means trifling,
or doing any thing in a fmall degree : perhaps from ped-
dling. . " . ,

Piece. A wench. A damned good or bad piece; a girl
who is more or kfs a&ive and Ikilfui in the amorous con-
<grefs.

Pig. Sixpence, a fow's baby. Pig- widgeon ; a fimpleton. To
pig together; to lie or deep together, two or more in a bed.
Cold pig ; a jocular pumrament inflifted by the maid fer-
vants, or other females of the houfe, on perfons lying over
long in bed : it confifts in pulling off all the bed-clothes, and
leaving them to pig or lie in the cold. To buy a pig in a
poke ; to purchaie any thing without feeing it. Pig's eyes ;
fmall eyes. Pigfnyes; the fame : a vulgar term of endear-
ment to a woman. He can have boiled pig at home ; a mark
of being matter of his own houfe : an allufion to a well-known
poem and ftory. Brandy is Latin for pig and goofe ; an
apology for drinking, a dram after either.

Pig- headed. Obftinate.

1 Pi o R v n n i n c . A piece of game frequently pra&i&d at fairs,
wakes, &c. A large pig, whofe tail is cut (hort, and both
foaped and greafed, being turned out, is hunted by the
young men and boys, and oecomes the property of him who
can catch and hold him by the tail, above the height of his
head.

Pigeon. A weak filly fellow eaiily impofed on. To pigeon ;
■ to cheat. To milk the pigeon ; to attempt iropolfibilitics, to

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be put to fhifts for want of money. To fly a tine pigeons
to deal lead off a church. 4i 4

Pigeons. Sharpers, who, during the drawing of the. lojtftry,
wait ready mounted near Guildhall, and, as foon as thetirft
two or three numbers are drawn, which they receive^iron
a confederate on a card, fide with them full fpeed to^tame
diftant infurance office, before fixed on, where there is another
of the gang, commonly a decent looking woman, who takes
care to be at the office before the hour, ofdrawing : to her he
fecretly gires the number, which {he infures for a confidently
fum ; thus biting the biter/

Pigeon's Milk. Boys and novices are frequently fent on the
firft of April to buy pigeon's milk.

To Pike* To run away. Pike off; runaway.

Pilgrim's Salve. A {irreverence, human. excrement*

Pill, or Peele Garlic k. Said originally to mean one"
whofe Jkin or hair had fallen off from fome difeafe, chiefly
the venereal one ; but now commonly nfed by perfons fpeak-
ing of themfelves : as, There flood poor pill garlick ; i. e.
there Hood I.

P.llaloo. The Irifh cry or howl at funerals.

Pimp* A male procurer, or cock bawd; alio a fmall faggot
u fed about London for lighting fires, named from introdu-
cing the fire to the coals.

Pimp Whiskin. A top trader in pimping.

Pi n. In or to a merry pin ; aimed drunk : an allufion to a
fort of tankard, formerly ufed in the north, having filver
pegs or pins fet at equal diftances from the top to the bottom :
by the rules of good fellowfhip, every perion drinking out
of one of thefe tankards, was to fwallow the quantity con-
tained between two pins ; if he drank more or lefs, he was
to continue drinking till he ended at a pin : by this means
pdrfons unaccuftomed to meafure their draughts were obliged
to drink the whole tankard. Hence, when a perion was a
little elevated with liquor, he was (aid to have drunk to a
merry pin.

Pin Basket. The youngeft child.

Pin Money. An allowance fettled on a married woman for
her pocket expences.

Pinch. At a pinch ; on an exigency.

To Pinch on the Parson's Side. To defraud the parfon
of bis tithes. ,

Pinchers*

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fftfdHERS. Rogues who, in changing money, by dexterity of
hand frequently fecrete two or three (hillings out of the change
t^ljf * guinea. This fpecics of roguery is called the pinch, or
pinching lay.

"to 'Pink. To ftab or wound with a foiall fword: probably

." derived from the holes, formerly cut in both men and wo-

I men's clothes, called pinking. Fink of the fafhion ; the top

, ^of the mode. To pink and wink ; frequently winking the

eyes through a weaknefs in them.

Pinkinc-dindee. A fweater or mohawk. Irifh*

Pinnerians. A fociety formerly held at the Sun in Clare*
market.

Pintle Smith, or Pintle Tagger. A furgeon.

Piper. A broken- winded horfe.

Piscinarians. A dub or brotherhood, A. D. 1743*

Piss. He will pifs when^he can't whittle ; he will be hanged.
He (hall not pifs my money againft the wall; he (hall not
have my money to fpend in liquor.

He tvho once a good name gets,
May pifs a -bed, and fay befweats 9

Piss-born id." Difcoloured : commonly applied to a dis-
coloured grey wig.

Pies Maker. A great drinker, one much given to liquor*

Piss Pot Hall. A houfe at Clapton, near Hackney, built
by a potter chiefly out of the profits of chamber-pots, in the
bottom of which the portrait of Dr. Sacheverel was de-
picted.

Piss Prophet. A phyfician who judges of the difcafes of his
patients folely by the infpe&ion of their. urine.

Piss-proi/d. Having a falfe erection. That old fellow

thought he had an ere&ion, but his was only pifs*

proud ; faid of any old fellow who marries a young wife.

Pissing down any one's Back. Flattering him.

Pissing Pins and Needles. To have a gonorrhea.

Pit. To lay pit and boxes into one-; an operation in mid-
wifery or copulation, whereby the divifion between the anus
and vagina is cut through, broken, and demoliftied : a fimile
borrowed from the play houfe, when, for the benefit of fome
favourite player, the pit and boxes are laid together. The
pit is alfo the hole under the gallows, where poor rogues un-
able to pay the fees are buried,

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Pitt's Picture. A window ftopt up on the infidfc, 46 five
the tax impofed in that gentleman's adminiftrattfli*;: '^wTj

Pit-a-pat: The palpitation of the heart : as, My bear^went
pit-a-pat. Pintledy-pantledy ; the fame. '"^-^

Pitch-settled. Stuck fart, confounded. ~^ 1

Pitcher. The miraculous pifeher, that holds water wM the
mouth downwards ; a woman's commodity* She has track-
ed her pitcher or pipkin ; (he has loft her maidenhead? -^

fizz y Club* A fociety held, A. D. 1744, at the figt* oflthe
Tower, on Tower-hill : president, Don Pizzaro. ' ^

Plaister of warm Guts. One warm belly clapped to an-
other : a receipt frequently prefcrtbed for different disorders*.

Plant. The place in the houfe of the fence, where ftolen
goods are fecreted.

To Plant. To lay, place, or hide. Plant your wids and
flow them ; be careful what you fay, or let flip. Alfo to
bury : as, He was planted by the parfon.

Plate. Money, filver, prize. He is in for the plate ; he has
won the heat, i. e. is infected with the venereal diforder : a
fimile drawn from horfe-racing. When the plate fleet comes
an ; when money comes to hand.

Platter-faced. Broad-faced.

Play. To play booty ; to play with an intention to lofe. To
play the whole game ; to cheat. To play lead in fight ; to
hide, or keep out of the way. To play the devil ; to be /
guilty of fome great irregularity or mifmanagement.

Pluck. Courage. He wants pluck; he is a coward. A-
gainfl the pluck ; againft the inclination. Pluck the rib.
bon ; ring the bell. To pluck a crow with one ; to fettle a
difpute, to reprove one for fome paft tranfgreflion. To pluck
a rofe ; an expreflion faid to be ufed by women for going to
the neceflary-houfe, which in the country ufually ftands in
the garden. To pluck alfo fignifies to deny a degree to a
candidate at one of the universities, on account of infuf-
flciency.

Plug Tail. A man's penjs.

Plumb. An hundred thoufand pounds.

Plump. Fat, full, flefhy. Plump in the pocket j full in the
pocket. To plump ; to ftrike, or (hoot. I'll give you a
plump in the bread bafket, or the victualling office ; I'll give
you a blow in the flomach. Plump bis peepers, or day-
lights; give him a blow in the eyes. He pulled out his pops

and

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j< iB \ and plumped him 5 he drew out his piftols and (hot him. A
^ plumper ; a fingle vote at an election. Plump alfo means
* direttly, or exa&ly : as, It fell plump upon him; it fell di-
, flP .. rettly upon him.

Plump Currant. lam not plump currant; I am out of
forts.

jjJPhtmpers. Contrivances faid to be formerly worn by old
__l maids, for filling out a pair of fhrivellgd cheeks.

Pl y k a . A crutch ; alfo a trader.
*: Pocv. Drank.

Point. To ft retch a point; to exceed fome ufual limit, to
take a great ft ride. Breeches were ufually tied up" with

. points, a kind of fhort laces, formerly given away by the
churchwardens at Whitfuntide, under the denomination of
tags : by taking a great ftride thefe were ftretched.

Poisoned. Big with child : that wench is poifoned, fee how
her belly is fwelled. Poifon-pated ; red-haired.

Poke. 'A blow with the fill : I'll lend you a poke* A poke
likewife means a fack : whence, to buy a pig in a poke,
i. e. to buy any thing without feeing or properly examining
it.

Poker. A fword. Fore pokers ; aces and kings at cards*

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Pole. He is like a rope-dancer's pole, lead at both ends ; fay*
ing of a ftupid fluggiih fellow.

Polish. To polifh the king's iron with one's eyebrows; to
be in gaol, and look through the iron grated windows. To
polifh a bone ; to eat a meal. Come and polifh a bone with
me; come and eat a dinner or fupper with me.

Poll. The head, jolly nob, napper, or knowledge box; alfo
a wig.

Polt. A blow. Lend him a polt in the muns; give him a
knock in the face.

To Pommel. To beat: originally confined to beating with
the hilt of a fword ; the knob being, from its fimilarity to a
fmall apple, called pomelle ; in Spanifh it is ft ill called the
apple of the fword. As the clenched fift likewife fomewhat
refembles an apple, perhaps that might occafion the term
pommelling to be applied to fiftycuffs.

Pomp. To fave one's pomp at whift, is to fcore five before the
adverfaries are up, or win the game : originally derived from
pimp, which is Welfh for five ; and fhould be, I have faved
my pimp*

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Pomp a g in is. Aqaa pompaginis ; pamp water. See AqxftiS

Pomp kin. A man or woman of Bofton in America : fronVtne
number of pompkins raifed and eaten by the - people of that'
country. Pompkinfliire ; Bofton and its dependencies* ' 5 ,;

Pontius Pilate. A pawnbroker. Pontius Pilate*s guards';'
the firft regiment of foot, or royal Scots : fo intitled frofai
their fuppofed great antiguity. Pontius Pilate's coufffeilor-i
one who like him can lay, Non invenio caufam, I can ffad
no caufe.

Pope. A figure burned annually every fifth of November, in
memory of the gunpowder plot, which is faid to have been «
carried on by the papifts.

Pope's Nose. The rump of a turkey.

Pops. Piflols. Pop (hop; a pawnbroker's (hop. To pop; to
pawn ; alfo to (hoot. I popt my tatler ; I pawned my watch.
I popt the cull ; I fhot the man. His means are two popt
and a galloper ; that is, he is a highwayman.

Poplers. Pottage* Cant.

Pork. To cry pork ; to give intelligence to the undertaker
of a funeral : metaphor borrowed from the raven, whofe note
founds like the word pork. Ravens are faid to fmell carrion
at a diftance.

Porker. A hog; alfo a Jew.

Porridge. Keep your breath to cool your porridge; i.e.
hold your tongue.

Porridge Island. An alley leading from St. Martin's
church-yard to Round-court, chiefly inhabited by cooks,
who cut off ready-drefled meat of all forts, and alfo fell

foup.

Posey, or Poesy. A nofegay. I (hall fee you ride back-
wards up Holbom-hill, with a book in one hand, and a pofey
in t'other ; i.e. I (hall fee you go to be hanged. Malefac-
tors who piqued themfelves on being properly equipped for
that occafion, had always a nofegay to fmell to, and a prayer
book, although they could not read.

Posse Mobilitatis. The mob.

Post Master General. The prime minifter, who has the
patronage of all polls and places.

Post Nointer. A houfe painter, who occafionally paints or
anoints pofts. Knight of the poft ; a falfe evidence, one
ready to fwear any thing for hire* From poft to pillar ; back*
wards and forwards.

Postillion

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Jkau^Lioif of the Gospe l. A parfon who hurries over the

$&?> The pot calls the kettle black a-fe ; one rogue exclaims
againft another.

E<jt.jC,qnverts. Profelytes to the Romifh churchy made by
J^C diftribution of victuals and money.

IJotjHuntbju One who hunts more for the fake of the prey
JhDfian the fport. Pot valiant; courageous from drink, rot-
wallopers ; perfons entitled to vote in certain boroughs by
^having boiled a pot there.

Potatob Trap. . The mouth. Shut yourpotatoe trap and
give your tongue a holiday; i. e. be filent. Irijb <wit.

Pothooks and Hangers. A fcrawl, bad writing.

Pot-w a b b l b rs. Perfons entitled to vote for members of par-
liament in certain boroughs, from having boiled, their pots
therein. Thefe boroughs are called pot-wabbling boroughs.

. Po u L A I N. A bubo. French*

Pound. A prifon. See Lob's Pound. Pounded ; imprifon-
ed. Shut up in the parfon's pound ; married.

Powder Monkey. A boy on board, a (hip of war, whofe
bufinefs it is to fetch powder from the magazine.

Powdering Tub. The fame as pickling tub. See Pickling
Tub.

Prad Lay. Cutting bags from behind horfes. Cant.'

Prancer. A horfe. francer's nab; a horfe's head, ufed as
a feal to a counterfeit pafs. At- the fign of the prancer's poll,
i. e. the nag's head.

Prate Roast. A talkative boy. Cant.

Prating Cheat. The tongue.

Pratts. Buttocks; alfo a tinder box. Cant. .

Prattle Broth. Tea. See Chatter Broth, Scandal
Broth, &c.

Prattling Box. The pulpit.

Pray. She prays with her knees upwards ; faid of a woman
much given to gallantry and intrigue. At her^aft prayers ;
faying of an old maid.

Prbad amite Quacabites. This great and laudable fociety
(as they termed themfelves) held their grand chapter at the
Coal-hole.

Prey. Money.

Prick. The virile member.

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Prick-eared, A prick-eared fellow; one whole t&ti sfe
longer than his hair : an appellation frequently given to po-
ritans, who confidered long hair as the mark of the whose afi
Babylon. . -..ri

Pricklouse. A taylor. . .:,

Priest-craft. The art of awing the laity, managing! theifT
confciences, and diving into their pockets.

Priest-linked. Married. f

Priest-ridden. Governed by a pried, or priefts.

Prig. A thief, a cheat ; alfo a conceited coxcomical fellow.

Prig Nappe r. A thief taker.

Priggers. Thieves in general. Priggers of prancers; horfe
fie ale rs. Priggers of cacklers ; robbers of hen-roofts.

Prigging. Riding ; alfo lying with a woman.

Prigstar.^ A rival in love.

Pr i mi nary. I had like to be brought into a priminary ; i. c.
into trouble : from premunire.

Prince Prig. A king of the gypfies ; alfo the head thief or
receiver general.

Pri ncbs. When the majefty of the people was a favourite term
in the Houfe of Commons, a celebrated wit, feeing chim-
ney fweepers dancing on a May day, ftyled them the young
princes.

Princod. A pincufhion. Scotch. — Alfo a round plump man
or woman.

PRiNCt>x. A pert, lively, forward fellow.

Princum Pranciam. Mrs. Princum Prancum; a nice, pre-
ciie, formal madam.

Prinking. Dreffing over nicely : prinked up as if he came
out of a bandbox, or fit to fit upon a cupboard's head.

"Print. All in prin>; quite neat or exa&, fet, fere wed up.
Quite in print ; fet in a formal manner.

Pri sc ian. To break Prifcian's head ; to write or fpeak falfe
grammar. Prifcian was a famous grammarian, who flourifhed
at Conftantinople in the year 52 {; and who was fo devoted
to his favourite ftudy, that to fpeak falfe Latin in his com-

• pany, was as difagreeable to him as to break his head.

' Prittle Prattle. Infignificant talk: generally applied to
women and children.

Prog. Provifion. Rum prog ; choice provifion. To prog;

to

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.go be on the hunt for provifion : called in the military term
r $o forage.

ftfco#s*i Crutches.

Property. To make a property of any one ; to make him a
conveniency, tool, or cat's paw ; to ufe him as one's own*

Pud bo. Defirous of copulation. A proud bitch ; a bitch at
heat, or defirous of a dog*

Prove nder. He from whom any money is taken on the high-
way : perhaps providor, or provider* Cant,

Prophet. The prophet; the Co?k at Temple Bar: fo
called, in 1788. by the bucks of the town, of the inferior
order.

Prunella. Mr. Prunella ; aparfon: parfons' gowns being
frequently made of prunella.

To Pry. To examine minutely into a matter or btifinefs. A
prying fellow; a man of impertinent •curiofi ty, apt to peep >
and inquire into other men's fecrets. -

Public Ledger. A proftitute : becaufc, like that paper, (he
is open to all parties.

Pucker. All in a pucker; in adifhabille. Alfo in a fright:
as, She was in a terrible pucker.

Pucker Water. Water impregnated with alum, or other
aftringents, ufed by old experienced traders to counterfeit vir-
' ginity.

Pudd 1 ng s. The guts : I'll let out your puddings.

Pudding-headed Fellow. A ftupid fellow, one whofe
brains are all in confufion.

Pudding Sleeves. Aparfon*

Pudding Time. In good time, or at the beginning of a
meal : pudding formerly making the firft di(h. To give the
crows a pudding ; to die* You muft eat fome cold pudding,
to fettle your love.

Pupf, or Puffer. One who bids at au&ions, not with an
intent to buy, but only to raife the price of the lot ; for
which purpofe many are hired by the proprietor of the, goods
on fale.

Puff Guts. A fat man.

Puffing. Bidding at an au&ion, as above; alfo praifingany
thing above its merits, from interefted motives. ' The art of
puffing is, at prefent, greatly pra&ifed, and eflentially necef-
fary, in all trades, profeffions, and callings* ' To puff and
blow ; to be out of breath*

Pug.

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Pug. A Dtrtch pug ; a kind of lap-dog, formerly rnicT! Iff
vogue ; alfo a general name for a monkey. .: -- v. r <>:*rl

Pug Carpenter. An inferior carpenter, one empl
in fmall jobs.

Pug Drink. Watered cyder* ' :j

Pugnosed, orPuGiFiBD. A perfon with a fnub or turned
up nofe.

Pully Hawly. To have a game at pally hawly; to rbrrrp*
with women.

Pump. A thin (hoe. To pump; to endeavour to draw' a
fecret from any one without his perceiving it. Your pump
is good, but your fucker is dry ; faid by one to a perfon
who is attempting to pump -him. Pumping was alfo a
punifhment for bailiff's, who attempted to ad in privileged
places, fuch as the Mint, Temple, &c. it is alfo a piece of
difcipline adminiflered to a pickpocket caught in the fa&>
when there is no pond at hand. Topumpfhip; to make
water, and fometimes to vomit. Sea phrafe.

Pu m p. w a t b r. He was chriftened in pump water ; commonly
faid of a perfon that has a red face.

Punch. A liquor called by foreigners Contradi&ion, from
its being compo fed of fpirits to make it ftrong> water to make
it weak, lemon juice to make it four, and fugar to make it
fweet. Punch is alfo the name of the prince of puppets, the
chief wit and fupport of a puppet-ihow. To punch it, is a
cant term for running away. Punchable ; old paffable money,
anno 1695. A girl that is ripe for man, is called a punch-
able wench. v

Punk. A whore ; alfo a foldier's trull. See Trull.

Puny. Weak. A puny child ; a weak little child. A puny
flomach ; a weak ftoraach. Puny, or puifne judge ; the laft
made judge.

Pupil Mongers. Perfons at the univerfities who make it
their bulinefs to inftrucl: and fuperintend a number of pupils.

Puppy. An affefted or conceited coxcomb.

Purblind. Dim-fighted.

, Pure. A harlot, or lady of eafy virtue.

Purest Pure. A courtezan of high fafhion.

Purl. Ale in which wormwood has been infufed* or ale and
bitters drunk warm.

Pu* loyal. Canary wine, with a daih of tin&ure of worm-
wood

Purse

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£?$&& Proud. One that is vain of his riches.

Purs b nets. Goods taken up at thrice their value, by young
v fpendthrifts, upontruft.

Purser's Pump. A balloon : from its likeraefs to afyphon,
called a puffer's pump.

ByKsr, or Pursive. Short- breathed, or ifoggy, from being
over fat.

fyxsm no School. A fencing fchool ; alfo a brothel.

Put. A country put ; an ignorant awkwaiM clown. To put
, upon any one ; to attempt to impofe on him, or to make
him the but of the company.

Puzzle-cause, A lawyer who has a c onfufed understand*
ing.

Puzzle-text. An ignorant blundering p ©rfon.

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_ JJACK. An ungraduated ignorant pretender to (kill im
phyfic, a vender of noftrums.

Qu ac k- salver. A mountebank ; a fell er of falves.

Quacking Cheat. A duck.

Qu ag. Abbreviation of quagmire : marfbrpy moorifh ground.

Qu a i l - p i p e • A woman's tongue ; alfo a. d e vice to take birds
of that name, by imitating their call. <3u ail -pipe boots ;
boots refembling a quail- pipe, from the number of plaits;
they were much worn in the reign of Charlies II.

Quakers. A religious feci : fo called from their agitations
in preaching.

Quaking Cheat. A calf or lheep.

Quandary. To be in a quandary ; to be puzzjed. Alfo one fo
over-gorged, as to be doubtful which he fhoedd do rlrft, (h— c
or fpew. Some derive the term quandary from the French
phrafe qu'en diraije? what (hall I fay of it.^ others from an
Italian word fignifying a conjuror's circle.

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Quarrel-picker* A glazier : from the fmaH fqji^fCKjn
cafements, called carreaux, vulgarly quarrels. -"nam

Quarromes, or Quarron. A body. Cant. *3

Quartered. Divided into four parts. To be ty.
drawn, and quartered, is the fentence on traitors and rel
Perfons receiving part of the falary of an office from^nc
holder of it, by virtue of an agreement with the dondiyfire
faid to be quartered on him. Soldiers billetted on a pubtiQm
are .like wife faid to be quartered on him.

To Quash. To ftpprefs, annul, or overthrow ; vulgarly pro-
nouncedy^7/ft ; they fquaftied the indiclment.

Quean. A flat, a worthlefs woman, a (trumpet.

Qui en Dick. To the tune of the, life and death of Queen
Dick7 That happened in the reign of Queen Dick ; i. e.
never.

Queb n Stre et„ A man governed by his wife, is faid to live
in Queen-ftreet, or at the (ign % of the Queen's Head.

Queer, or Quire. Bafe, rogujfh, bad, naught, or worth-
lefs. How queerly the cull touts ; how roguifhly the fellow
looks^ It alio means odd, uncommon. Cant.

Queer as Dick's Hatband. Out of order, without know-
ing one's di feafe.

To Queer. To puzzle or confound. I have queered the old
full bottom ; i. e. I have puzzled the judge. To queer one's
ogles among bruifers ; to darken one's day-lights.

Queer Wedges.' Large buckles.

Queer Bail. Infolvent (harpers, who make a profeflion of
bailing perfons arretted: they are generally (tyled Jew bail,
from that branch of bufinefs being chiefly carried on by the
fons of Juda. The loweft fort of thefc, who borrow or hire
clothes to appear in, are called Mounters, from their mount-
ing particular drefles fuitable to the occafion. Cant.

Queer Birds. Rogues relieved from prifon, and returned to
their old trade.

Queer Bit-makers. Coiners. Cant.

Queer Bitch. An odd, out-of-the-way fellow.

Qu eer Bluffer. The matter of a public-hou fe the refort of
rogues and (harpers, a cut- throat inn or alehoufe keeper*

Qu eer Bung. An empty puxfe.

Queer Checkers. Among (trolling players, door-keepers
who defraud the company, by falfely checking the number
of people in the boufe.

Queer

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n <3jfrfcfc* Col* Fencer, A putter off, or utterer, of bad
money.

Queer Col* Maker; A maker of bad money.
*^36£tKR Cove. A rogue. Cant.
^fl^ERjt Cuffin. Aj uftice of the peace ; alio a churl.
d&u?ftfiR Degen. An ordinary fword, brafs or iron hilted.
^Q^eer Ken. A prifon. Cant.

Queer Kicks. A bad pair of breeches.
* Queer Mort. A difeafed ftrumpet. Cant.

QuRE* Najb. A felt hat, or other bad hat*

Queer Plungers. Cheats who throw themfelve* into the
water, in order that they may be taken up by their accom-
plices, who carry them to one of the houfes appointed by
the ffmrnme S oc i e ty -for the recovery of drowned perfons,
where they are rewarded by the fociety with a guinea each %
and the fuppofed drowned perfon, pretending he was driven
to that extremity by great neceffity, is alfo frequently fent
away with a contribution in his pocket.

Qu eer Prance r. A bad, worn-out, foundered horfe ; alfo a
cowardly or faint-hearted horfe-ftealer.

Queer Rooster. An informer thatkpretends to be fleeping,
and thereby overhears the converfation of thieves in nignt
cellars.

Qui tam. A qui tam horfe ; one that will both carry and
draw. Law wit.

To Qu i b b l b • To make fubtle diftin&ions ; alfo to play upon
words.

Quick and Nimble. More like a bear than a fquirrel.
Jeeringly faid to any one moving fluggifhly on a bufinefs ot
errand that requires difpatch.

Quid. The quantity of tobacco put into the mouth at one
time. To quid tobacco ; to chew tobacco. Quid eft hoc f
hoc eft quid % alfo a ihiHing.

Quids. Cafh, money. Can you tip me any quids? can you
lend me £om& money ?

QuiTFiNG. Rogeriflg. See To Roger.

Quidnunc. A politician ; from a character of that name in
the farce of the Upholfterer.

Quill Driver; A clerk, fcribe, or hackney writer.

Qjtim. The private parts of a woman : perhaps from the
Spanifli ouemar, to burn*

Z QyiNSEY.

QUO

Quins iy. Choked by a hempen quinfey ; hanged* v

Quip ps. Girds, taunts, jefts.

Quire, or Choir Bird. A complete rogue, one that b*t
fung in different choirs or cages, i e. gaols. Cant, S

Quirks and Quillets. Tricks and devices. Quirks in
law ; fubtlc diftinflions and evafions.

Quiz. A ftrange-Iooking fellow, an odd dog. Oxford.

Quod. Newgate, or any other prifon. The dab's in quod ;
the poor rogue is in prifon.

Quota. Snack, (hare, part, proportion, or dividend. Tip
me my quota ; give me part of the winnings, booty, or
plunder. Cant.

R.

RAG

R

.ABBIT. A Welch rabbit ; bread and cheefe toafted, i. e.
a Welih rare bit. Rabbits were alfo a fort of wooden canns
to drink out of, now out of ufe.

Rabbit Catcher. A midwife.

Rabbit Suckers. Young fpendthrifts taking up goods on
truft at great prices.

Rack Rent. Rent ftrained to the utmoft value. To lie at
rack and manger ; to be in great diforder.

Rackaback. A gormagon. See Gorm agon.

Raffs. An appellation given by the gownfmen of the univer-
fity of Oxford to the inhabitants of that place. ,

Rag. A farthing. ,

To Rag. To abufe, and tear to rags the characters of the per-
fons abufcd. She gave him a good ragging, or ragged him
off heartily.

Rag Carrier. An eniign.

Rag Fair. An fnfpedtion of the linen and neceffaries of a
company of fokliers, commonly made by their officers oa
Mondays or Saturdays.

Rag

RAN

Rao Water, Gin, or any other common dram : thefe liquors
feldom failing to reduce thofe that drink them to rags.

Ragamuffin. A ragged fellow, one all in tatters, a tatter-
demallion. " ._

Rails. See Head Rails. A dim of rails ; a lecture, joba-
tion, or fcolding from a married woman to her hufband.

Rainbow. Knight of the rainbow; a footman: from being

- commonly clothed in garments of different colours. A

meeting of gentlemen ftyled of the raoft ancient order of the

rainbow, was adrertifedto be held at the Foppington's Heady

, Moorfields.

Rainy Day. To lay up fomething for a rainy day ; to pro-
vide againft a time of neceffity or diftrefs.

Rake, Rakehell, or Rakeshame. A lewd, debauched
fellow.

Ralph Spooner. A fool.

Ram Cat* A he cat*

Rammish. Rank. Rammifh woman ; a fturdy virago.

Rammer. The arm. The bufnapper's kenchin feized my
rammer ; i. e. the watchman laid hold of my arm. Cant.

Ramshackleo. Out of repair. A ramfhackled houfe ; per-
haps a corruption of ranfacked, i. e. plundered.

Randle. A fet of nonfenfical verfes, repeated in Ireland by
fchoolboys, and young people, who have been guilty of
breaking wind backwards before any of their companions ;
if they neglect this apology, they are liable to certain kicks,
pinches, and fillips, which are accompanied with divers ad-
monitory couplets.

Randy. Obftreperous, unruly, rampant.

Ranging. Intriguing with a variety of women.

Rank. Stinking, ram mi Hi, ill- flavoured ; alfo ftrong, great.
A rank knave; a rank coward : perhaps the latter may allude
to an ill favour caufed by fear.

Rank Rider. A highwayman.

Rant all i on. One whofe fcrotum is fo relaxed as to be
longer than his penis, i. e. whofe mot pouch is longer than
the barrel of his piece.

Rantipole. A rude romping boy or girl; alfo a gadabout
diffipated woman. To ride rantipole; the fame as riding
St. George; See St. George.

Rantum Scantum. Playing at rantum fcantum ; making
the bead with two backs.

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To Rap. To take a falfe oath ; alfp to curfe. He rapped
out a volley ; i. e. he fwore a whole volley of oaths. To
rap, means alfo to exchange or barter : a rap is likewife an
Infli halfpenny. Rap on the Jtnuckles ; a reprimand. ■

Rapparees; Irifh robbers, or outlaws, who in the time of
Oliver Cromwell were armed with (hort weapons, called in
Irifh rapiers, ufed for ripping perfons up.

Rap per. A Twinging great lie.

Raree Shew Men. Poor Savoyards, who fubfitl by (hewing
the magic lantern and marmots about London.

Rascal. A rogue or villain: a term borrowed from the
chafe ; a rafcal originally meaning a lean (habby deer* at
the time of changing his horns, penis, &c. whence, in the
vulgar acceptation, rafcal is conceived to fignify a man with-
out genitals : the regular vulgar anfwer to this reproach, if
uttered by a woman, is the offer of an ocular demonftration
of the virility of the party fo defamed. Some derive it from
rafcaglione, an Italian word iignifying a man without tcfticles,
or an eunuch.

Rat. A drunken man or woman taken up by the watch, and
confined in the watch-houfe. Cant. — To fmell a rat} to
fufpeft fome intended trick, or unfair defign.

Rats. Of thefe there are the following kinds : a black rat
and a grey rat, a py-rat and a cu-rat.

Rattle. A dice box. To rattle; to talk without confi-
deration, alfo to move off or go away. To rattle one off;
to rate or fcold him.

Rattle-pate. A volatile, unfteady, or whimfical man or
woman. ^

Rattle-traps. A contemptuous name for any curious port-
able piece of machinery, or philofophical apparatus.

Rattler* A coach. Rattle and pad ; a coach and bories.

Rattling Cove. A coachman. Cant.

R a t tl i n o Mu m p e rs. Beggars who ply coaches. Canu

Raw Head and Bloody Bones. A bull beggar, or fcare-
child, with which fooltfli nurfes terrify crying brais.

Reader. A pocket-book. Canu

Reader Merchants. Pickpockets, chiefly young Jews*
who ply about the Bank to fteal the pocket-books ol perfons
who have juft received their dividends there.

Ready* The ready rhino ; money. Canu

Rebus,

REP

iRwus* A riddle or pun on a man's name, exprefted in fculp-
r/i ture or painting, thus : a bolt or arrow, and a tun, for Bolton;
r<r fieath's head, and atpn> for Morton.

Reckon. To reckon without one's hojft; to make an erro-
^ neous judgment in one's own favour. To cafr up one's
iv reckoning or accounts; to vomit.

To Recruit. To get a frefh fupply of money.

Red Fustian. - Port wine;

Red Lane. The throat. Gone down the red lane; fwal-
lowed.

Red Latticb. A public houfe.

Red Letter Day. A faint's day or holiday, marked in the
calendars with red letters. Red letter men; Roman Catho-
lics : from their obfervation of the faints days marked in red
letters.

Red Rag. The tongue. Shut your potatoe trap, and give
your red rag a holiday ; i. e. Jhut your mouth, and let your
tongue reft. Too much of the red rag ; too much tongue.

Re d S a i l- y a rd Doc k e r s. Buyers of ftores ftolea out of the
royal yards and docks.

Red Shank. A duck. Cant, — -Alfo a Scotch highlander*

Religious Horse. One much given to prayer, or apt to be
down upon his knees.

Religious Painter. One who does not break the com-
mandment which prohibits the making of the likeoefs of
any thing in heaven or earth, or in the waters under the
earth.

Ti* s Relish. The fign. of the chefhire cheeie.

Remedy Critch. A chamber pot, or member mug.

Remember Parson Mblham. Drink about : a Norfolk
phrafe.

Rendezvous. A place of. meeting. The rendezvous of the
beggars were, about the year 1638, according to the Bell,
man, St. Quinton's, the Three Crowns in (he Vintry, St.
Tybs, and at Knapfbury: thefe were four barns within a
mile of London. In Middlefex were four other harbours,
called Draw the Pudding out of the Fire, the Crofc Keys in
Craneford parifti, St. Julian's in I He worth parifh, and the
Houfe of rettie in Northall pariih. In Kent, the King's
Barn near Dartford, and Ketbrooke near Blackheath.

Rep. A woman of reputation.

Repo-

R I D

Repository. A lock-up or fpunging-houfe, a gaol. Alfo
livery ftables, where horfes and carriages are fold by auction.

Rescoumters. The time of fettlement between the bulls
and bears of Exchange-alley, when the lofers irtuft pay theif
differences, or become lame ducks, and waddle out of the'
Alley.

Resurrection Men. Perfons employed by the ftudents in
anatomy to ileal dead bodies out of church-yards*

Reverence. An ancient cuftom, which obliges any perfon
cafing himfelf near the highway or foot-path, on the word
reverence being given him by a paffenger, to take off his
hat with his teeth, and without moving from his (ration to
throw it over his head, by which it frequently falls into the
excrement : this was confidered as a punilhment for the
breach of delicacy. A perfon refufing to obey this law,
might be pulhed backwards. Hence, perhaps, the term,
Jtr-reverence,

Reversed* A man fet by bullies on his head, that his money
may fall out of his breeches, which they afterwards by acci-
dent pick up. See Hoisting.

Review of the Black Cuirassiers. A vifitation of the
clergy. See Caow Fair.

Rhino. Money. Cant*

Rhinocerical. Rich: the cull is rhinocerical. Cant.

Rib. A wife : an allufion to our common mother Eve, made
out of Adam's rib. A crooked rib; a crofs-grained wife.

Ribalbry. Vulgar abufive language, fuch as was fpoken by
ribalds. Ribalds were originally mercenary foldiers, who
travelled about, ferving any matter for pay, but afterwards
Regenerated into a mere banditti.

Ribbi n. Money. The ribbin runs thick ; i. e. there is plenty
of money* Cant.

To Ribroast. To beat : 111 ribroaft him to his heart's con^
tent.

Rich Face, or Nose* A red pimpled face.

Richard Snarv. A di&ionary, A country lad, having
been reproved for calling perfons by their chriftian names,
being fent by his matter to borrow a di&ionary, thought to
(hew his breeding by afldng for a Richard Snary.

Rider A perfon who receives part of the falary of a place or
appointment from the oftenfible occupier,, by virtue of an
agreement with the donor, or great man appointing* The

rX4cr

R O A

<c rider is faid to be quartered upon the poffeflbr, who often
s has one or more perfons thus riding behind him. See

jQuARTERED.

$Lidge. A guinea. Ridge cully; a goldfmith. Cant*

Riding St. George. The woman uppermoft in the amorous
congrefs, that is, the dragon upon St. George. This is faid
to be the way to get' a bifhop.

Riding Skimmington. A ludicrous cavalcade, in ridicule
of a man beaten by his wife. . It confifts of a man riding
behind a woman, with his face to the horfe's tail, holding
a diftafF in his hand, at which he feems to wojrk, the wo-
man all the while beating him with a ladle ; a fmock dis-
played on a ftaff is carried before them as an emblematical
uandard, denoting female fuperiority : they are accompanied
by what is called the rough mu/ic, that is, frying-pans, bulls
horns, marrow-bones and cleavers, &c. A proceffion of this
kind is admirably defcribed by Butler in his Hudibras. He
rode private, i. e. was a private trooper.

Riff Raff. Low. vulgar perfons, mob, tag-rag and bob-
tail.

Rig. Fun, game, diverfion, or trick. To run one's rig upon
any particular perfon ; to make him a butt. I am up to your
rig ; I am a match for your tricks.

Rigging. Clothing. I'll unrig the blofs; I'll ftrip the
wench. Rum rigging ; fine clothes. The cull has rum
rigging, let's ding him and mill him, and pike ; the fellow
has good clothes, let's knock him down, rob him, and fcour
off, L e. run away.

Rigmarole. Roundabout, nonfenfical. He told a long rig-
marole ftory.

Ring. Money procured by begging :"* beggars fo called it
from its ringing when thrown to them. Alfo a circle formed
for boxers> wreftlers, and cudgel-players, by a man ftyled
Vinegar ; who, with his hat before his eyes, goes round the
circle, ftriking at random with his whip to prevent the po-
pulace from crowding in.

To Ring a Peal. To (cold: chiefly applied ta women.
His wife rung him a fine peal !

Rip. A miferable rip ; a poor, lean, worn-out horfe.

Rippons. Spurs: Rippo^ is famous for a manufactory of
fpurs, both for men and fighting cocks.

Roaratorios and Uproars. Oratorios and operas.

Roaring Boy. A noify, riotous fellow.
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R O O

Roaring'Trade. A quick trade.

To Roast. To arreft. Ill roaft the dab; I'll arreft
rafcal. — Alfo to jeer, ridicule, or banter. He Rood
roaft ; he was the butt. — Roaft meat clothes ; Sunday or
holiday clothes. To cry roaft meat; to boaft of one's fituatiom
To rule the roaft ; to be matter or paramount.

Roast and Boiled. A nick name for the life guards, who
are moftly fubftantial houfe-keepers, and eat daily of roaft and
boiled.

Robert's Men. The third old rank of the canting crew,
mighty thieves, like Robin Hood.

Roby Douglas, with one eye and a {linking breath. The
breech*

Rochester Portion. Two torn fmocks, and what nature
gave.

Rocked. He was rocked in a ftone kitchen; a faying meant
to convey the idea that the perfon fpoken of is a fool, his
brains having been difordered by the jumbling of his cra-
dle. *

Roger. A portmanteau ; alfo a man's yard. Cant.

Roger, or Tib of the Buttery. Agoofe. C00/.— Jolly
Roger ; a flag hoifted by pirates.

To Roger. To bull, or lie with a woman : from the name
of RogeT being frequently given to a bull.

Rogues* The fourth order of canters. A rogue in grain ; a
great rogue, alfo a corn chandler. A rogue in lpirit; a
diftiller or brandy merchant.

Rogum Pogum, or Dragrum Pogram. Goat's beard,
eaten for afparagus; fo called by the ladies who gather
creffes, &c. who alfo deal in this plant.

Roman. A foldier in the foot guards, who gives up his pay
to his captain for leave to work ; ferving, like an ancient
Roman, for glory, and the love of his country.

Romboyles. Watch and ward. Romboyled; fought after
with a warrant.

Rome Mort. A queen. N

Romeville. London. Cant.

Romp. A forward wanton girl, a tomrig. Grey, in his note*
to Shakefpeare, derives it from arompo, in animal found in
South Guinea, that is a man eater. See Hoyden.

Rook. A cheat : probably from the thievifh difpofition of the

bird*

ROW

birds of that name. Alfo the cant name for a crow ufed in
houfe-breaking. — To rook ; to cheat, particularly, at play.

ItooM. She lets out her fore room and lies backwards : fay-
** ing of a woman fufpedled of proftitution.

Ropes. Upon the high ropes ; elated, in high fpirits, cock-
a-hoop.

Rose. Under the rofe ; privately or fecretly. The rofe was,

it is faid, facred to Harpocrates, the God of Silence, and

therefore frequently placed in the ceilings of rooms deftined

for the receiving of euefts; implying, that whatever was

. tranfafted there, mould not be made public*

Rosy Gills. One with a fanguine or frefh-coloured coun-
tenance.

Rotan. A coach, cart, or other wheeled carriage.

Rot Gut. -Small beer; called beer- a-burable— will burft
one's guts before 'twill make one tumble.

Rovers. Pirates, vagabonds.

Rough. To lie rough ; to lie all night in one's clothes : called
alfo roughing it. Likewife to fleep on the bare deck of a
(hip, when the perfon is commonly advifed to chufe the
fofteft plank.

Rough Music. Saucepans, frying-pans, poker and tongs,
marrow-bones and cleavers, bulls horns, &c. beaten upon and
founded in ludicrous proceffions.

Rouleau. A number of guineas, from twenty to fifty or more,
wrapped up in paper, for the more ready circulation at
gaming-tables : fometimes they are inclofed in ivory boxes,
made to hold exa&Iy 2*0, 50, or 100 guineas.

Round Dealing. Plain, honed dealing.

Round Heads. A term of reproach to the puritans and par-
tizans of Oliver Cromwell, and the Rump Parliament, who
it is fai4 made ufe of a bowl as a guide to trim their hair.

Round Robin. A mode of figning rem on ft ranees pra&ifed
by failors on board the king's (hips, wherein their names are
written in a circle, fo that it cannot be difeovered who firft
figned it, or was, in other words, the ringleader.

Round Sum. A considerable fu m.

Rout. A modern card meeting at a private houfe ; alfo an
order from the Secretary at War, directing the march and
quartering of foldiers.

Row. A disturbance : a term ufed by the ftudents at Cam-
bridge.

A a Row.

RUM

Row. To row in the fame boat; to be embayed in the
fame fcheme. :i

Rowland. To give a Rowland for an Oliver; to give afe
equivalent. Rowland and Oliver were two knights famous
in romance : the wonderful achievements of the one couj£l
only be equalled by thofe of the other, '

Rowla nds. A fraternity, by the title of the ancient and ho-
nourable family of the Rowlands, held their annual meet*
ing at the Prince and Princefs of Orange, Whitechapel
Fields.

Royal Scamps. Highwaymen who never rob any bu,f rich
perfons, and that without ill treating them. See Scamp.

Rot al StagSocibty. Was held every Monday e^ning, at
feven o'clock, at the Three Tuns, near the Hofpital Gate,
Newgate-ftreet.

Royster. A rude bpifterous fellow ; alfo a houjnd that opens
on a falfe fcent.

To Rub, To run away. Don't rub us to the whit; don't
fend us to Newgate. Cant. — To rub up ; to refrefh : to
rub up one's memory. A rub ; an impediment. A rubber ;
the bell two out of three. To win a rubber; to win two
games out of three.

Ruby-faced. Red-faced.

Rupf. An ornament formerly worn by men and women round
their necks. Wooden ruff; the pillory.

Ruffian. . The devil. Cant. — May the ruffian nab the cuffin
queer, and let the harmanbeck trine with his kinchins about
his colquarron ; may the Devil take the juftice, and let the
conftable be hanged with his children about his neck. The
ruffian cly thee ; the Devil take thee. Ruffian cook ruffian,
who fcalded the Devil in his feathers ; a faying of a bad
cook. Ruffian Sometimes alfo means a juftice.

Ruffles. Handcuffs. Cant,

Rufflers. The firft rank of canters ; alfo notorious rogues
pretending to be maimed foldiers or failors.

Ruffmans. The woods, hedges, or bulhes. Cant*

Rug. It is all rug; it is all right and fafe, the game is fecure.

Cant.

Rum. Finei good, valuable*

Rum Beck. A juftice of the peace. Canu

Rum Bitb. A clever cheat, a clean trick.

Rum

RUM

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Rum Bleating Cheat. A fat wether (beep* Cant*
Rum Blower. A handfome wench* Cant.
3£umBlvf*br* Ajollyhoft. Cant*
Ifcuvt Bob. A young apprentice ; alfo a fharp trick.

Rum Booze. Wine, or any other good liquor. Rum boot-
ing welts; bunches of grapes. Cant.

Rum Bubber* A dexterous fellow at dealing filver tankards
from inns and taverns.

Hum Bughbr. A valuable dog. Cant.

Rum Bun 6. Afullpurfe* Cant.

Rum Chub. Among butchers, a cuftomet eafily impofed on,
as to the quality and price of meat. Cant*

Rum Chant. A fong.

Rum Clout. A fine fiik, cambric, or holland handkerchief*
Cant*

Rum Cod. A good purfe of gold* Cant*

Rum Cob. See Cob.

Rum Cole. New money, or medals*

Rum Cove. A dexterous or clever rogue*

Rum Cull* A rich fool, eafily cheated, particularly by his
miftrefs*

Rum De gen, A handfome fwofd. Cant.

Rum Dell. See Rum Doxf*

Rum Diver. A dexterous pickpocket* Cant*

Rum Doxy. A fine wench. Cant.

Rum Drawers. Silk^ or other fine ftockings. Ctenu

Rum Dropper. A vintner. Cant.

Rum Dubber. Ah expert picklock.

Rum Duke. A jolly handfome fellow ; alfo an odd eccentric
fellow ; Hkewife the boldeft and (touted fellows lately among
the Alfatians, Minters, Savoyards, and other inhabitants of
privileged diftri&s, fent to remove and guard the goods of
fuch bankrupts as intended to take fandtuary in thole places*
Cant.

ftuM File;* „ See Rum Diver*

Rum Fun. A (harp trick. Cant*

RttM Gaggbrb. Cheats who tell wonderful ftories of their
foffefing* it fea, or when taken by the Algerines* Cant.

Kum QaELT* See Rum Cole. Cant.

A a 2 Rum

\

RUM

Rum Glymmer. King or chief of the link-boys* Cant*
Rum Guttlers. Canary wine. Cant.

Rum Hopper. A drawer at a tavern. Rum hopper, tip us
prefently a boozing cheat of rum guttlers ; drawer, bring us
prefently a bottle of the beft canary. Cant.

Rum Kicks. Breeches of gold or filver brocade, or richly
laced with gold or filver. Cant.

R v m Mawnd. One that counterfeits a fool. Cant.

Rum Mort. A queen, or great lady. Cant.

Rum Na b. A good hat.

Rum Nantz. Good French brandy. Canu

Rum Ned. A very rich (illy fellow. Cant.

Rum Pad. The highway. Cant.

Rum Padders. Highwaymen well mounted and armed*

Cant.

Rum Peepers. Fine looking-glafles. Cant.

Run Prancer« A fine horfe. Cant.

Rum Quids. A great booty. Canu

Rum Ruff Peck. Weftphalia ham. Cant.

Rum Snitch. A fmart fillip on the nofc.

Rum Squeeze. Much wine, or good liquor, given among
fiddlers. Cant.

Rum Tilter. See Rum Decen.

Rum Tol. SccRumDegen.

Rum Topping. A rich commode, or woman's head-dre/L

Rum Ville. See Romevilli.

Rum Wiper. See Rum Clout.

Rum bo. Rum, water, and fugar ; alfo a prifon.

Rum boy lb. A ward or watch.

Rumbumtious. Obftreperous.

Rumford. To ride to Rumford to have one's backfide new
bottomed ; i.e. to have a pair of new leather breeches,
Rumford was formerly a famous place for leather breeches.
A like faying is current in Norfolk and Suffolk, of Bungay,
and for the fame reafon.— > Rumford lion; a calf. Sec Es-

SLXLlON.

Rump. To rump any one; to turn the back to him : an evo-
lution fometimes ufed at court. Rump and dozen; a rump
of beef and a dozen of claret : an Irifh wager, called alia

buttock

RUT

buttock and trimmings. Ramp and kidney men ; fiddlert
that play at feafts, fairs, weddings* &c. and live chiefly on
the remnants.

'Rumpus, A riot, quarrel, orconfufion.

Run Goods* A maidenhead, being a commodity never en-
tered.

Running Horse, or Nag. A clap, or gleet.

Running Smobble. Snatching goods off a counter, and
throwing them to an accomplice, who brufhes off with
them.

Running Stations rs» Hawkers of newfpapers, trials, and
dying fpeeches.

Runt. A fhort fquat man or woman : from the fmall cattle
called Welfh runts.

Rush ers. Thieves who knock at the doors of great houfes in
London, in fummer time, when the families are gone out of
town, and on the door being opened by a woman, rufh in
and rob the houfe ; alfo houfebreakers who enter lone houfes
by force.

Russian Coffeb-House. The Brown Bear in Bowtftreet,
Covent-Garden, a houfe of call for the thief-takers and run-
ners of the Bow-ftreet juftices.

Rusty. Out of ufe. To nab the ruft ; to be refractory:
properly applied to a reftive horfe, and figuratively to the
human fpecies. To ride nifty; to be fullen : called alfo to
ride grub.

Rusty Guts. A blunt furly fellow : a jocular mifnomer of
ruftkus.

Rutting. Copulating. Rutting time; the feafon when
deer go to rut.

s.

s

SAL

s

ACHfiVEkfiL. The iron door, or blower, to the month
of a ftcve : from a divine of that name, who made himfelf
famous for blowing the coals of diflenfion in the fetter end of
the reign of queen Ann.

Sack. A pocket. To buy the fack; to get dnmk. Todivt!
into the feck ; to pick a pocket. To break a bottle in an
empty fack ; a bubble bet, a fack with a bottle in it not be*
ittgfch empty Tack.

Sad £)og. A wicked debauched fellow: one of the ancient
family of the fad dogs* Swift translates it into Latin by the

Words trifiis cants.

Sa d d l e . To faddle the fpit • to give a dinner or fqpper. To
faddle orie'B nofe ; to wear fpe&acles. To faddle a place or
penfion ; to oblige the holder to pay a certain portion of hid
income to fome one nominated by the donor. Saddle fickj
failed with riding, having loft leather.

Saint. A piece of fpoilt timber in a coach-maker's Ikep, like
a faint, devoted to the flames.

Saint Geoffrey's Day, Never, there being no faint df
that name : to-mOrrow-come-never, when two Sundays tome
together.

Saint Luke's Bird. An ox : that Evangelift being always
reprefented with an ox.

Saint Monday. A holiday moft religioufly obferved.by
journeymen (hoemakers, and other inferior mechanics: a
profanation of that day, by working, is punifhable by a fine,
particularly among the gentle craft. An Irifhman obferved*
that this faint's anniversary happened every week.

Sainton ge. A fociety formerly held at the Excife Coffee*
houfe, Old Broad- flreet.

Sal. An abbreviation of falimation. In a high falj in the
pickling tub, or under a falivation.

Salamanders. The worthy members of the fociety of Sala-
manders met at the Bull and Anchor, near Hammerfmith.

Salesman's Dog. A barker. Vide Barker,

Salmon-

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Salmon-gundy. ^ Apple*, oaten*, v^al ?r chicken, and pick-
led hearings, minced fine, and ea£en with oil and vinegar :
$>me derive the name of this mefs from the French words
fihn man gonfty becaufe the proportions of the different ingre-
dients are regulated by the palate of the maker ; others fay it
bears the name of the inventor, who was a rich Dutch mer-
Chaat : but the general and mod probable opinion is, that k
was invented by the counts fa of Sal»agondi, one of the ladies
of Mary de Medicis, wife of king Henry IV, of France, and
by her brought into France.

Salmon, or Salamon. The beggars' facran>ent or oath-

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g^Lj, lecherous. A felt bitch ; a. bitch at heat* or proud
bitch. Salt eel ; a rope's end, u&d %o corieft boys, #c, at
fea : you (hall have a fait eel for fupper.

Sandwich, Harn* dried tongue, or farne other falted meat,
cut thin* and put between two flices of bread and butter ;
faid to be a favourite morfel with the Earl of Sandwich. *

Sandy Pate, A red-haired man or woman.
Sangak.ee. Rack punch was formerly fo caUed in bagnios.

Sank, Sanky, or Centipee's, A taylor employed by clo-
thiers in making foldiers' clothing.

6 a p sc u Lt, A fimple fellow. $appy ; foolifh.

Satyr. A libidinous fellow : thofe imaginary beings are by
poets reported to be extremely falacious.

Savcb Box. A term of familiar raillery, fignifying a bold or
forward perfon.

Save. all A kind of candleftkk ufed by our frugal fore-
fathers, to burn fnuffs and ends of candles. Figuratively!
boys running about gentlemen's houfes in Ireland, who ar$
fed on broken meats that would otherwife be wafted ; alfo a
mifer.

Saunteibr. An idle, lounging fellow: by fome derived
ftom Jams Urre ; applied to perfons who, having no lands or
home, lingered and loitered about. Some derive it from
perfons devoted to the Holy Land, faint terre, who loitered
ajx>ut, as waging for company,

Saw. An old faw ; an ancient proverbial faying.

Saw ny, or Sandy, A general nick- name for a Scotchman,
as Paddy is for an Irifhman, or Taffy for a Welchman ;
Sawny or Sandy being the familiar abbreviation or dtnpijUJ-
tive of Alexander, a very favourite naxne among the. Sqottifh

nation.

Scab,

SCO

Scab* A worthlefs man or woman.

Scald Miserables. A fet of mock mafons, who, A. D.
1 744, made a ludicrous proceffion in ridicule of the Free
Mafons*

Scaly Fish. An honeft, rough, blunt failor.

Scamp. A highwayman. Royal fcamp; a highwayman
who robs civilly. Royal foot fcamp; a footpad who behaves
in like manner.

To Scamper. To run away haftily.

Scandal Broth. Tea. .

Scandal Proof. One who has eaten ftiarae and drank after
it. or would bU(h at being afhamed.

Scandalous. A perriwig. Cant.

Scap eg allows. One who'deferves and has narrowly efcape4
the gallows, a flip-gibbet, one for whom the gallows is laid
to groan. r *

Scapegrace A wild diflblute fellow. - **

Scarce. To make one's felf fcarce; to ftcal away. ' x

Scarlet Horse. A high-red, hired or hack horfe : a guff
on the word hired. '*

Scave y. Senfe, knowledge. « Malta, me no fcavey ;" matfery

I don't know (negroe language) : perhaps from the French^

Jcavoir, N J

Scheme. A party of pleafure.

Schism Mok g e r . A diflenting teacher.

' Schism Shop. A diflenting meeting-houfe.

School of Venus. A bawdy-houfe.

School Butter. Cobbing, whipping.

Sconce. The head, probably as being the fort and citadel of
a man : from fconce> an old name for a fort, derived from a
Dutch word of the fame ugnification. To build a fconce ;
a military term for bilking one's quarters. To fconce or
Ikonce ; to impofe a fine. Academical phrafe.

Scotch Bait. A halt and a reding on a flick, aspraftifedl>y
pedlars.

Scotch Chocolate. Brimftone and milk.

Scotch Fiddle. The itch.

Scotch Mist. A fober foaking rain : a Scotch mift will wet
an Englilhman to the flrin.

Scotch Warming Pan. A wench ; alfo a fart.

Scoundrel.

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Scoundrel. 'A man void of every principle of honour.

Scour. To fcour or fcore off; to run away : perhaps froi
/core, i. e. full fpeed, or as faft as legs would cany one.«*»
Alfo to wear : chiefly applied to irons, fetters, or handcufi,
becaufe wearing fcours tnera. He will fcour the darbies ;
he will be in fetters. To fcour the cramp ring; to wear
bolts or fetters, from which, as well as from coffin hinges,
rings fuppofed to prevent the cramp are made.

Scourers. Riotous bucks, who amufe themfelves with break-
ing windows, beating the watch* and affauiting every perfoii
they meet : called fcouring the ftreets.

Scout. A college errand-boy at Oxford* called a gyp at
Cambridge. Alfo a watchman or a watch. Cant.

Scragged. Hanged.

Scraggy, Lean, bony.

Scran. Visuals.

Scrap. A villahous fcheme or plan. He whiddtes the whole
fcrap ; he difcovers the whole plan or fcheme.

^rape. To get into a fcrape; to be' involved in a difagree*
able bufinefs.

Sc&aper., A fiddler; alfo one who {crapes plates for mezzo-
tinto prints. N

Scraping, A mode of expreffing diflike to a perfon, or fer-
mon, pra&ifed at Oxford by the ftudents, in fcraping theit
feet agaift the ground during the preachment; frequently
done to teflify their difapprobatioh 01 a pro&or who has been,
as they think, too rigorous;

Scratch. Old Scratch ; the t)evil : probably from the long
and (harp claws with which he is frequently delineated.

Scratch Land. Scotland.

Scratch Platter, or Taylors Ragout. Bread foot in
the oil and vinegar in which cucumbers have been diced.

To Screw. To copulate,. A female fcrew ; a common pro£-
titute. To fcrew one up ; to exaft upon one in a bargain
or reckoning.

Screw Jaws. A wry-mouthed man or woman.

Scrip. A fcrap or flip of paper. The cully freely blotted the
/crip, and tipt me forty hogs ; the man freely figned the
' bond, and save me forty (hillings. — Scrip is alfo a Change
Alley phrate for the laft loan or fubfcriptioh. What does
fcrip go at for the next refcounters ? what does fcrip fell for
4elivcred at the next day of fettling i

B b Scroby*

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Scroby. To be tipt the fcroby ; to be whipt befofe the jiif-
'* tices.

ScRope. A farthing. Cant.

Scrub. A low mean fellow, employed in all forti of ditty
work,

Scrubbado, The itch.

Scull. A head of a houfe, or matter of a college, at the tini~
verfities.

,6c ull, or Sculler. A boat rowed by one man with a light
kind of oar, called a fcoll ; alfo a one-horfe ehaife or buggy.

Sc u ll Th at c h e r . A peruke-maker.

Scum, The riff-raff, tag fag and bobtail, or loweft order of
the people.

Scut. The tail of a hare or rabbit ; alio that of a woman.

Scuttle. To fcuttle off; to run away. To fcuttlca fhlji^
* to make a hole in her bottom, in order to link her.

Sea Crab, Afailor, '■ T "'>

Sealer, or Squeeze Wax. One ready to give bond and
judgment for goods or money.

Secret. He has been let into the fecret ; he has been cheat*.
ed at gaming or horfe-racing. He or ihe is in the : gratka
fecret; i.e, dead. a --5

Seedy. Poor, penny lefs, ftiver-craroped, exhaufted.

Sees, The eyes. See Daylights,

Seraglio. A bawdy-houfe; the name of that part of the?
Great Turk's palace where the women are kept.

Set. A dead fet ; a concerted fcherne to defraud a perfon by
gaming,

Settbr. A bailifPs follower, who, like a fetting dog, fol*
I6ws and points out the game for his mailer, Alfo fome*
times an excifeman.

To Settle. To knock down or ftun any one; We fettled
the cull by a ftoter on bis nob ; "we (tunned the fellow by a
blow on the head*

Seven-sided Animal. A one-eyed man or woman, each
having a right fide and a left fide, a fore fide and a back fide,
an outfide, an iniide, and a blind fide.

Shabbaroon. An ill-drefled fhabby fellow; alfo a mean-
fpirited perfon.

Stf aftsbury, A gallon pot full of wine, with a cock.

To

SHE

ToStf.AQ. To, copulate. He is but; bad (hag; he is no able
woman's man.

Shag-bag, ox Shake- bag. A poor fneaking fellow, a man
of no fpirit : a term borrowed from the cock- pit.

Shake. To (hake one's elbow; to game with dice. To
(hake a. cloth in the wind ; to be hanged in chains. *

Shallow Fate. A (im pie fellow.

Sham. A cheat, or trick. To cat a (ham ; to cheat or de-
ceive. Shams ; falfe fleeves to put on over a dirty (hirt, or
falfe fleeves with ruffles to pat oyer a plain one. To (ham '
abram ; to counterfeit fickneis.

To Shamble. To walk awkwardly. Shamble-legged; one
that walks wide, and (hufHes about his feet*

Sh a n k e r . A venereal wart.

Shanks. Legs, or gams.

Shanks Naggy, To ride (hanks naggy ; to travel on foot.

Scotch*

Shannon. A river in Ireland : perfons dipped in that river *
. areperfe^Hy and for ever cured of baihfulnefs.

Shapes. To (hew one's (hapes; to be ftript, or made peel, at
tlie whipping-poft.

"Sh a p p o, of S h a p • A hat : corruption of chapeau. Cant.

Shark. A (harper: perhaps from his preying upoq any one
he can lay hold of. Alfo a cuftom-houfe officer, or tide-
waiter. Sharks ; the firft order of pickpockets. Bo*w-fireet
term, A. D. 1785. .

Sharp* Subtle, acute, quick-witted ; alfo a (harper or cheat,
in o'ppofition to a flat, dupe, or gull. Sharp's the word and
quick's the motion with him ; faid of any one very attentive
to his own ihtereft, and apt to take all advantages. Sharp
fef; hungry.

Sharper. A cheat, one that lives by his wits. Sharpers*
tools ; a fool and falfe dice.

Shaver. A cunning (haver; a fubtle fellow, one who trims
clofe, an acute cheat. A young (haver ; a boy. Sea term*

Shavings. The clippings of money.

She House. A honfe where the wife rules, or, as the term is, (
wears the breeches.

She Lion. A (hilling.

She Nap per. A wsman thief-catcher; alfo a bawd or
pimp.

Bb-2 Sheep's

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Sit * ftp's Head, Like a fheep's head, all jaw; faying of a.

talkative man or woman.
Sheepish. Balhful. A fheepifti fellow \ a bafliful or fhame-

faced fellow. To caft a (heep's eye at any thing ; to look

wifhfully at it.
Sheriff's Ball, An execution. To dance at the flieriff >

ball, and loll out one's tongue at the company ; to be hanged,

ox go to reft in a. horfe's night-cap, i. t% a halter*

Sheriff's Bracelets. Handcuffs.

Shbriff's Hotel. A prifon.

Sheriff's Picture Frame. The gallows.

To Sherk. To evade ot difappoint : to Iherk one's duty.

To Sherrt. To run away : flierry off.

Shifting Ballast. A term ufed by failors, to fignify fojU
^iers, paffengers, or any landfmen on board.

Shillaley. An oaken fapling, or cudgel : from a wodd 6f

that name famous for its oaks* Irjfi.

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Shilly-shally. Irrefokte. Toftand fhilly-fhally; tohefi-
tate, or ftand in doubt.

Shi ne. It fhines like a (hitten barn door.

Ship Sh ap e. Proper, as it ought to be. Sea phrafe.

Sh-t Sack. A daftardly fellow ; alfo a non-conformift. This
appellation is faid to have originated from the following
ftory:— After the reftoration, the laws againft the non- con-
forming were extremely fevere. They fo me times met in
very obfeure places : and there is a tradition that one of therr
congregations were aflembled in a bam, the rendezvous of
beggars and other vagrants, where the preacher, for want of
a ladder or tub, was fufpended in a fack fixed to the beam.
His difcourfe that day being on the lad: judgment, he par-
ticularly attempted, to defcribe the terrors of the wicked at
the founding of the trumpet; on which a trumpeter to a
puppet- (how, who had taken refuge in that barn and lay hid
under the ftraw, founded a charge. The congregation,
flruck with the utmoft confternation, fled in an inftant froni
the place, leaving their affrighted teacher to fhift for himfelf*
The effects of his terror are faid to have appeared at the bot-
tom of the fack, and to have occasioned that opprobrious
appellation by which the non-conformifts were vulgarly dif-
tinguifhed*

Sh-t-ng through the Teeth, Vpmfting, Hark ye,

friend,

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friend, have you got a padlock on your a-fc, that you £h-t*
through your teeth ? vulgar addrefs to one vomiting.

(Shod all round. A parfon who attends a funeral is {aid to.
be food all round, when he receive a hat-band, gloves, and
fcarf : many (hoeings being only partial.

Shoemaker's Stocks. New, or ftrait (hoes. I was in the
fhoemaker's (locks ; i, e. had on a new pair of ihoes that
were too fmall for me.

To Shoole. To go (kulking about.

To Shoot the Cat. .To vomit from excefs of liquor; called
alfo catting.

Shop. A prifon. Shopped ; confined, imprifoned.

Shoplifter. One that deals whilft pretending to purchafc
goods in a (hop.

Short heeled We nch. A girl apt to fall on her back.

- Shot. To pay one's (hot ; to pay one's (hare of a reckoning.
Shot betwixt wind and water ; poxed or clapped.

Shotten Herring. A thin meagre^Uow.

To Shove the Tumbler. To be whipped at the cart't
tail.

Shovel. To be put to bed with a (hovel ; to be buried. He
or (he was fed with a fire-fhovel; a faying of a perfon with *
i' : large mouth.

.'Shoulder Clapper, A bailift or member of the catch
club* Shoulder- clapped ; arretted.

Shoulder Sham. A partner to a file. See File.

Shred. A taylor.

She imp. A little diminutive perfon.

To Shuffle. To make ufe of falfe pretences, or unfair (hiftt.
A (huffling fellow j a (lippery (hifting fellow.

Shy Cock. One who keeps within doors fox fear of bailiffs*

Sicb. Sixpence.

Sicjc as a Horse* Horfes are faid to be extremely fick at
their ftomachs, from being unable to relieve themfelves bjr
vomiting. Bracken, indeed,, in his Farriery, gives an in,-
ftauce of that evacuation being procured, but by a meant
which he fays would make the Devil vomit. Such as may
have occafion to adminifter an emetic either to the animal or
the fiend, may confult his book for the recipe.

Side Pocket.. He has as much need of a wife as a dog of a
fide pocket j faid of a weak oldMebilitated man. He wants

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. ft as machos a dog does a fide pocket ; a fimile ufed for one
who defires any thing by no means neceflary.

Sidledtwry. Crooked.

Sign of a House to Let. A widow's weeds*

r Five Shillings. The crown.
Sick of thb-s Ten Shillings. The two crowns*

£ Fifteen Shillings. The three crowns.

Silence. To filence a man; to knock him down, or fton
him. Silence in the court, the cat is piffing ; a gird upon
any one requiring filence unneceffarily.

Silent Flute. SeePiGo, Sugar Stick, Sec.

S. l k Sn at ch br s. Thieves who faatcb hoods. or bonnets fronx
perlbns walking in the ftreets*

Sim kin. A foolilh fellow.

Si mow. Sixpence. Simple Simon; a natural, a fitly fellow t
Simon Sucli-egg, fold his wife for an addle duck egg.

TgSimpeiu Tq fmile : to fimper likea firmity kettle*

Simpleton. Abbreviation of fimple Tony or Anthony, a
fbolifla fellow.

Simples. Phyfical herbs ; alfp follies. He mud go to Batter-
&z r to be cut for the fimples— Ratterfeais a place famous for'
its garden grounds, fbme of which were formerly appropriate
ed to the growing of fimples for apothecaries, who at'a certairt *
feafon ufed to go down to felecA their ftock for the enfulrj^f J
year, at which time the gardeners were faid to cut their fim-
ples ; whence it became a popular joke to adviie young peov^
pie to gp to Batterfea, at that time, to have their fimple&cufj^
or to be cut for the fimples.

To Sing Small, To be hu mbled , confounded, or abafhed> to*
. fcave little or nothing to fay for one's felf.

Single Peeper. A perfon having but one eye.

Singleten. A very foolifh fellow; alfo a particular kind of
nails.

Singleton. A cork fere w, made by a famous cutler of that
name, who lived in a place called Hell, in Dublin; his
fcrews are remarkable for their excellent temper.

5ir Jch n. The old title for a Country parfon ; as Sir John of
Wrotham, mentioned by Shakefpeare.

Sir Jo-hn B^rletcgrn. Strong beer*

Sir Loin. The fur* or upper loin.

Sir Rryersnce. Human excrement, a t— d*

Si*

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St* Timothy. One who, from a defire of being ttie head of
the company, pays the reckoning, or, as the term is, Hands
{quire; See Squire,

Sitting Breeches. One who Mays late in company, kfaid
to have his fitting breeches on, or that he will fit longer dun
a hen.

Six and Eight-pence. An attorney, whofe fee tin federal
occafions is fixed at that fum.

Six, and Tips* Whftky and fmall beer. Irijb*

Six- Pounder. A fervant fraud, from the wages fornterly glvea
to maid fervants, which was commonly fix pounds.

Sixes. Small beer, formerly fold at fix (hillings the barrel.

Sixes and Sevens. Left at fixes and fevens ; i. e. in confn-
fion : commonly laid of a room where the furniture, &c. is
fcattered about ; or of a bafinefs left un&ttied,

Size of Ale. Half a pint. Size of bread and cheefe; \
certain quantity. Sizings; Cambridge term for the- college
^ allowance from the buttery, called at Oxford battles.

Size'*. A poor or inferior ftudfcnt on the college eft*bliih:neat
;at Cambridge, called at Oxford a fervrtor.

Skew. A cap, or beggar's wooden difh.

Steiwvow, or All as*ew. Crooked, inclining to one fide.

S&in. In a bad (kin ; out of temper, in an ill humour. Thin-;
' (kinned; touchy, peevifh.

Skin Flint* An avaricious man or woman*

Sic ink. To flcink, is to wait on the company, ring the bel!,
. ftir the fire, and fouff the candles ; the duty of the j'otmgeft
officer in a military mefs. See Boots.

Skins. A tanner.

Sx!P Jacks. Yotingfrers that ride horfes on fate, horfe- dealers*
boys* Alfo a plaything made for children with the breaft-
bone of a goofe.

Sxip Kbnnel. A footman*

Skippe*. A barn*, CzinU— Alfo the captain of a Dutch.
veffel.

To Skit. To wheedle. Cant.
SiTRip. See Scrip.

Skulker. A foldier who by feigned ficknefs, or other pre-
tences, evades his duty ^ a Tailor who keeps below in time
of dinger ; in the civil line, one who keeps out of the way,

when

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- wfcen any work is to be done. To ikulk ; to hide one's (elf*
to avoid labour or duty.

Sky Blue. Gin*

Skr Farmers, Cheats who pretend they were farmers in thfr

, ifle of Sky, or fome other remote place, and were ruined by

a flood, hurricane, or fome fuch public calamity ; or elfe
-called iky fanners from their farms being in nubibut% 4 in the

clouds.'

Sky Parlour* The garret, or upper dory*

Slabbering Bib. A parfon or lawyer's band*

Slag. A flack-mettled fellow, one not ready to refent an
affront.

Si, am. A trick ; alfo a game at whift loft without fcoring one*
To flam to a door ; to (hut it with violence.

Slamkin, A female floven, one whofe clothes feem hung on
with a pitch-fork, a carelefs trapes.,

Sla n g. Cant language.

Slap-bang Shop. A petty cook's ftiop where there is no
credit given, but what is had muft be paid down nvith th£
ready flap-bang* i. e. immediately. This is a common ap?
pellation for a night cellar frequented by thieves, and fome*.
times for a ftage coach or caravan.

Slapdash. Immediately, inftantly, fuddenly.

Slasher. A bullying riotous fellow. Irijh.

Slat, Haifa crown. Cant.

Slate. A fheet. Cant.

Slater's Pan. The gaol at Kingfton in Jamaica : Slatet is
the deputy provoft martial.

Slattern. A woman fluttifhly negligent in her drefs.

Sleeping Partner. A partner in a trade, or (hop, whe*
lends his name and money, for which he receives a ware of
the profit, without doing any part of the bufinefs.

Sleepy. Much worn : the cloth of your coat muft be ex-
tremely fleepy, for it has not had a nap this long time.

Sleeveless Errand. A fool's errand, in fearch of what i£
is impoffible to find.

Slice. To take a (lice ; to intrigue, particularly with a mar-
ried woman, Jjecaufe a (lice of a cut loaf is not miffed.

SlIPGlBBET. See SCAPEGALLOWS.

Slipfbrx

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Shipper r Chap. One on whom there can be no dependaficej
a fhuffiing fellow.

Slipslops. Tea, water*gruei, or any innocent beverage taken
medicinally.

Slipslopping* Mifnaming and mifapplying any hard word :
from the charafter of Mrs. Slipflop^ in Fielding's jofeph An-
drews.

Slops. Wearing apparel and bedding ufed by teamen.

Slop Seller. A dealer in thofe articles, who keeps a flop
(hop.

*§louch. A (looping gait, a negligent flovenly fellow. To
flouch ; to hang down one's head. A douched hat; a~hat
A whofe brims are let down.

Slubber de Guleion* A dirty nafty fellow*

&%ug. A piece of lead of any (hape, to be fired from a blun-
der bufs. To fire a flag ; to drink a dram.

Slug-a-bed. A drone, one that cannot rife in the morn* l

* %«/\oe your Gob. Take a hearty drink»

$$u&. To flur, is a method of cheating at dice; alfo to cafi:
"?£!]ferieAion on any one's charatter, to fcandalize.

Slush. Greafy di(h water, or the Ikimmings of a pot where
fat meat has been boiled.

SlushBucket. A foul feeder, one that eats much greafy
food.

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Sly 'Boots* A cunning fellow, under the mafk of fimpli-
.city.

Smabbled, or Snabbled. Killed in battle.

To Smack. To kifs. I had a fmack at her muna ; I kifled
her mouth. To fmack calves flcin ; to kifs the book, i. c.
to take an oath. The queer cuffin bid me fmack calves (kin,
but I only buffed my thumb ; the juftice bid me kifs the
book, but I only ki&ed my thumb.

Smack Smooth. Level with the furface, every thing cut
away.

Smacking Cove. A coachman.

Small Clothes. Breeches: a gird at the affecled delicacy
of the prefent age ; a fuit being called, coat, waiftcoat, and
articles, or fmall clothes.

Smart. Spruce, fine : as fmart as a carrot new fcraped.

C c Sma*t

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Sm a rt Money. Money allowed to foldiers or failors for tat
lofs of a limb, or other hurt received in the fervice.

Smash. Leg of mutton and fmafti ; a teg of mutton and
mafhed turnips. Sea term.

To Smash* To break ; alfo to kick down flairs. Cant.

Smear. A plaiflerer.

Smear Gelt. A bribe. German.

Smeller. A nofe. Smellers; a cat's whifkers.

Smelling Cheat. An orchard, or garden; alfo anofegiy.

Cant.

Smelts. Half guineas; Cant.

Smicket. A fmock, or woman's (hift.

Smirk. A finical fpruce fellow. To fmirk ; to fmile, or look
pleafantly.

Smiter. An arm. To finite one's tutor ; to get money from
him. Academic term.

Smithfield Bargain. A bargain whereby the parchafer
is taken in. This is likewife frequently ufed to exprefs
matches or marriages contracted folely on the fcore of in •
tereft, on one or* both fides, where the fair fex are bought
and fold like cattle in Smithfield.

Smock-faced. Fair-faced.

To Smoke. To obferve, to fufpecl:.

Smoker. A tobacconift.

Smoky. Curious, fufpicious, inquifitivc.

Smouch. Dried leaves of the afh tree, ufed by the fmugglers
for adulterating the black or bohea teas.

Smous. A German Jew.

Smug. A nick name for a bfcckfmith ; alfo neat and fpruce.

Smuggling Ken. A bawdy-houfe.

To Smush. To fnatch, or feixe fuddenly.

Smut. Bawdy. Smutty ftory ; an indecent flory.

Snack. A (hare. Togofnacks; to be partners.

To Snabble. To rifle or plunder; alfo to kill.

Snaffler. A highwayman. Snafflex of prancers ; a horfe-
ftealer.

To Snaffle. To fteal. To fnaffle any one's poll; to Ileal
v his wig.

Snaggs.

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Snaggs. Large teeth ; alfo fnails.

Snakesman. See Little Snakesman.

Snap Dragon. A chriftmas gambol : raifins and almonds
being put into a bowl of brandy; and the candles extin-
guifhed, the fpirit is fet on 6 re, and the company (bramble
for the raifins.

To Snap the Glaze* To break (hop windows, or (how
glafles.

Snappers. Piftols.

Snapt. Taken, caught.

Snatch Cly. A thief who fnatches women's pockets.

Sneak. A pilferer. Morning fneak; one who pilfers early
in the, morning, before it is light. Evening fneak ; an even-
ing pilferer. Upright fneak ; one who fteals pewter pots
from the alehoufe boys employed to colled them. To go
upon the fneak ; to deal into houfes whofe doors are care-
leftly left open. Cant.

Sneaker. A fmall bowl.

Sneaking Budge. One that robs alone.

Sneaksby. A mean*fpirited fellow, a fneaking cur.

Sneering. Jeering, flickering, laughing in fcoxn.

S n ic k e b . A glandered horfe.

To Snicker, or Snigger. To laugh privately, or in one *s
fleeve.

To Snilch. To eye, or look at any thing attentively : the
cull fnilches. Cant.

Snip. A taylor.

Snitch. To turn (hitch, or fnitcher ; to turn informer.

To Snite. To wipe, or flap. Snite his fnitch; wipe his nofe,
i. e. give him a good knock.

To Snivel. To cry, to throw the fnot or fnivel about.
Snivelling ; crying. A fnivelling fellow ; one that whines
or complains.

To Snoach. To fpeak through the nofe, to fnufRe.

Snob* A nick name for a fhoemaker.

To Snooze, or Snoodoe. To deep. To fnooze with a
' raort ; to fleep with a wench. Cant.

S ft out. A hoglhead. Cant.

Snowball. A jeering appellation for a negro.

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To Snub. To check, or rebuke.

Snub Devil. A parfon.

Snub Nose. A fhort no£e turned up at the end.

Snudge. A thief who hides himfelf under a bed, In ordef
to rob the houfe.

Snuff. To take (huff; to be offended*

To Snuffle. To fpeak through the nofe.

Snuffles, ^A cold in the head, attended with a running at
the nofe.

Snug. All's fnug ; all's quiet.

To Soak. To drink. An old foaker; a drunkard, one that
rootftens his clay to make it flick together.

Socket Mo if by. A whore's fee, or hire ; alfo money paid
for a treat, by a married man caught in an intrigue.

Soldiers Bottle. A large one.

Soldiers Mawnd. A pretended foldier, begging with a
counterfeit wound, which he pretends to have received at
fome famous fiege or battle.

SoldiersPomatum. A piece of tallow candle.

Sol fa. A parifh clerk.

Solo Player. A miferable performer on any inftruraenf,
who always plays alone, becaufe no one will (lay in the room
to hear him.

$olomon. The mafs, CanU

Son of Prattlement. A lawyer.

Song. He changed his fong; he altered his account or tvu
dence. It was bought for an old fong, i. e. very, cheap.
His morning and his evening fong do not agree ; he tells a
different flory.

Sooterkin. A joke upon the Dutch women, fuppofing that,
by their conflant ufe of ftoves, which they place under their
petticoats, they breed a kind of fmall animal in their bodies,
called a footerkin, of the fize of a moufe, which when ma-
ture flips out.

Sop. A bribe. A fop for Cerberus ; a bribe for a porter,
turnkey, or gaoler.

Sorrel. A yellowifh red. Sorrel pate; one having red hair.

Sorrow shall be his Sops. He (hall repent this. Sorrow
go by me ; ^ common expletive ufed by the prefbyterians in
Ireland,

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Sorry. Vile, mean, worthlefs. A forry fellow, or huffy; a
worthleTs man or woman.

Soss Br angle. A flatternly wench.

Sot Weep. Tobacco.

Soul Case. The body. He made a hole in his (bul cafe; he
wounded him.

Soul Doctor, or Driver* A parfon.

Sounders. A herd of fwine.

Souse. Not a foufe ; not a penny. Trench.

Souse Crown. A filly fellow.

South Sea. Mountain, gin.

Sow. A fat woman. He has got the wrong fow by the car ;
he mi flakes his man. Drunk as David's fow; fee David'i
Sow.

Sow's Baby. A fucking pig*

So'.v Child, A female child*

Spado. A fword. Spanijh.

Spanish. The Span ifh ; ready money.

Spanish Coin. Fair words, and compliments.

Spanish Faggot. The fun.

Spanish Gqut. The pox.

Spanish Padlock. A kind of girdle contrived by jealous
hu (bands of that nation, to fecure the chaftity of theix

wiv:s.

Spanish, or King of Spain's, Trumpeter. Anafswhea
braying.

Spanish Worm. A nail : fo called by carpenters when thqr
meet with one in a board they are fawing.

Spanks, or Spankers. Money; alfo blows with the open
hand.

Spanking.. Large.

Spark. A fpruce, trim, or fmart fellow. A man that is
always thirily, is faid to have a (park in his throat*

Sparkish. Fine, gay.

Sparring Blows. Blows given by cocks before they clofe,
, or, as the term is, mouth it : ufed figuratively for words
previous to a quarrel.

Sparrow. Mumbling afparrow; a cruel fport frequently
praclifed q} wakes and fairs : for a fmall premium, a booby

fearing

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having his hands tied behind him, has the wing of a cock
fparrow pot into his mouth : with this hold, without any other
afliftance than the motion of his lips, he is to get the fpar-
row's head into his mouth : on attempting to do it, the bird
defends itfelf furprifingly, frequently pecking the mumbler
- till his lips are covered with blood, and he is obliged to de-
fift : to prevent the bird from getting away, he is fattened by
a firing to a button of the booby's coat.

Sparrow-mouthed. Wide-mouthed, like the mouth of a
fparrow : it is faid of fuch perfons, that they do not hold
their mouths by leafe, but have it from year to year ; i. e.
from e*ar to ear. One whofe mouth cannot be enlarged with-
out removing their ears, and who when they yawn have their,
heads half off.

Spatch Cock. - [Abbreviation ol dif patch cocL} A hen juft
killed from the rooft, or yard, and immediately ikinned,
fplit, and broiled : an Irifh difh upon any fudden occafion.

To Speak with. To rob. I fpoke with the cull on the
cherry- coloured prancer; I robbed the man on the black
horfe. Cant,

Specked Wiper. A coloured handkerchief. Cant.

Spider- shanked* Thin-legged.

To Sp i plicate. To confound, filence, or dumbfound.

Spill. A fmall reward, or gift of money.

Spilt. Thrown from a horfe, or overturned in a carriage :
pray, coachee, don't fpill us.

Spindle Shanks. Slender legs.

To Spirit away. ;To kidnap, or inveigle away*

Spiritual' Flesh Broker. A parfon.

Spit. He is as like his father as if he was fpit out of his
mouth ; faid of a child much refembling his father,

Spit. A fword.

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Spit Fire. A violent, pettifh, or paflionate perfon.

Spliced. Married : an allufion to joining two ropes ends by
fplicing. Sea term.

Split Crow. The fign of the fpread eagle, which being re-
pre fen ted with two heads on one neck, gives it fomewhat the
appearance of being fplit.

Split Cause. A lawyer.

Split Fig. A grocer.

Spoil Ikon. The nick name fox a fmith* *

Spoxg.

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Spoil Pudding. A parfon who preaches long fermons, keep-
ing his congregation in church till the puddings are over
done.

To Sport. To exhibit : is. Jack Jehu fported a new gig
yefterday : I (hall fport a new fuit next week." To fport or
flaih one's ivory ; to (hew one's teeth. To fport timber ; to
keep one's out fide door (hut : this term is ufed in the inns of
court to fignify denying one's felf. N. B. The word /fort
was in great vogue ann. 1783 and 1784.

Spungb. A thirfty fellow, a great drinker. Tofpunge; to
eat and drink at another's coft. Spunging-houfe ; a bailiff* s
lock- up- houfe, or repofitory, to which perfons arretted are
taken, till they find bail, or have fpent all their money : a
houfe where every fpecies of fraud and extortion is pra&ifed,
under the protection of the law.

Spunk. Rotten touchwood, or a kind of fuqgus prepared for
tinder; figuratively, fpirit, courage.

Spoon Hand. The right hand.

To Spout. To rehearfe theatrically.

Spouting Club. A meeting of apprentices and mechanics to
rehearfe different characters in plays : thus forming recruits
for the ftrolling companies*

Spouting. Theatrical declamation.

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Sp read Eagle. A foldier tied to the ftalberts in order to be
whipped : his attitude bearing fome likenefs to that figure,
as painted on figns.

Spring-ankle Warehouse. Newgate, or any other gaol.
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Squab. A fat man or woman : from their likenefs to a well*
ftufFed couch, called alfo a fquab. A new-hatched chicken.

Sqjjare Toes. An old man : fquare-toed (hoes were anciently
worn in common, and long retained by old men.

Sojjbak. A narrow efcape, a chance: he had a fqueak for
his life. To fqueak; toconfefs, peach, or turn flag. They
fqueak beef upon us ; they cry out thieves after us. Cant.

Squeaker. A bar boy ; alfo a baftard or any other child.
To ftifle the fqueaker ; to murder a baftard, or throw it into
the neceffary houfe.— Organ pipes are likewife called fqueakers.
The fqueakers are meltable ; the fmall pipes are filver.
Cant. '

Squeeze Crab. A four-looking, (hrivelled, diminutive fcU
Tow.

Squeeze

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Squeeze Wax. A good-natured foolifti fellow, ready to hc>£
come fecurity for another, under hand and feal.

Squelch. A fall. Formerly a bailiff caught in a barrack- .
yard in Ireland, was liable by cufrom to have three tofle*
in a blanket, and a fquelch ; the fquelch was given by let-
ting go the corners of the blanket, and fuffering him to fall
to the ground. Squelch-gutted; fat, having a prominent J
belly. . . : r ,

Sqy ib. A fmall fatirical or political temporary jcu d'efprit* , v
which, like the firework of that denomination, fparkle^
bounces, ft inks, and vanifhes.

Scjjiint-a-pipes. A fquinting man or woman: faid to he,
born in the middle of the week, and looking both ways for
Sunday ; or born in a hackney coach, and looking our> of
both windows ; fit for a cook, one eye in the pot, and tf&
other up the chimney; looking nine ways at once. .•, « >.t£

Squire or Alsatia. A weak profligate fpendthrift, • thtt*>:2
fquire of the company; one who pays the whole reckoning , g
or treats the company, called Handing fquire, '■&&'*

Sojj irish. Foolifh. , *i£

Squirrel. A proftitute : becaufe (he, like that animal, cbw§i
her back with her tail. Meretrix cor fare corpus alit. « ^e> ft T g
nagiana, ii. 128. ]'

Squirrel Hunting. See Huntinc. u x -r.

Stag. To turn flag; to impeach one's confederates: from f/ 1 *?.
herd of deer, who are faid to turn their horns againft any qf [ % , r »>
their number who is hunted. '

To Stag. To find, difcover, or observe.

Staggering Bob, with his Yellow Tumps. A calf jaft
dropped, and unable to ftand, killed for veal in Scotland :
the hoofs of a young calf are yellow.

Stall Whimper. A baftard. Cant,

Stalli ng. Making or ordaining. Stalling to the rogue ; an
ancient ceremony of inftituting a candidate into the fociety
of rogues, fomewhat fimilar to the creation of a herald at
arms. It is thus defcribed by Harman : The upright man
taking a gage of bowfe, i. e. a pot of ftrong drink, pours it
on the head of the rogue to be admitted ; faying— I, A. B.
do flail thee B. C. to the rogue ; and from henceforth it
(hall be lawful for thee to cant for thy living in all placea.

Stalling Ken. A broker's (hop, or that of a receiver of

ftolen goods. •

Staluon*

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Stallion* A man kept by ah old lady for fecr$t fervicofe

Stam Flesh. To cant* Cant.

Stammel, or Strammbl. A coarfe brawny wench.

Stamp. A particular manner x>f throwing the dice out of the
box, by (hiking it with violence againft the tabic.

Stamps. Legs,

Stampers. Shoes.

St a n o • s t i l l. He was run to a ftand-ftill ; i. e* till he could -
tto longer move*

Star Gazer. A horfe who throws up his head ; alio a hedge

whore.

To Star the Glaze* To break and rob a jeweller's Ihow
glafs. Cant.

Starched. Stiff, prim, formal, afre&ed.

Staring Quarter. An ox cheek*

StjSlt, or The old Start. Newgate: he is gone to thi
ftart, or the old ftart. Cant.-

Starter. One who leaves a jolly company, a milkfop : he
irno ftarter, he will fit longer than a hen.

StakVe'em, Rob'em, and Ch.eat'em. Stroud, Rochefter,
and Chatham : fo called by foldierf and lailors, and not
without good reafon.

§ta£-b. To lie in date ; to be in bed with three harlots*

StaVtape. A taylor: from that article, and its* coadjutor ,
buckram, which make no fmall figure* in the bills of thof?
knights of the needle.

Steel Bar. A needle. A Heel bar flinger $ a taylor, fiay-
~ maker, or any other perfon ufing a needle.

Steenkirk. A muflin neckcloth carelefsly put on, from the
' manner in which the French officers wore their cravats when
they "returned from the battle of Steenkirk.

Steeple House. A name given to the church by Dtf-
fenters.

Stepnev. A deco&ion of raiflns of the iurt arid lemons iri
conduit water, fwe^tened with fugar and bottled up.

Stewed Quaker. Burnt rum, with apiece of butter; an
' American remedy for a cold.

Sticks. Pops or piftols. StoW your flicks ; hide your piftols.
Cant. See, Pops.

Stick Flams* A pair of gloves.

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STirt-nuMP**. Fraud, ftitely,

Stingbuj*. A niggard*

Stingo. Strong beer, or other liquor.

SriRitufr Cup. A parting cap or glafs* drank on horfeback:
by the perfon taking leave.

Stitch. A nick name for a taylor; alfo a term for lying
with a woman.

Stitchback* Strong ale.

Stiver-cramped. Needy, wanting money. A (liver ft a
Dutch coin, worth fomewhat more -than a penny fterling.

Stock. A good dock; i. e. of impudence. Stock and
block ; the whole : he has loft ftock and block.

Stock Drawers* Stockings. Cant.

Stock Jobbers. Ferfous who gamble in Exchange Alley,
by pretending to buy and fell the public funds, but in reality
only betting that they will be at a certain price, at a parti-
cular time ; pofteffing neither the ftock pretended to be fold,
.nor money fufftcient to make good the payments for which
they contract : thefe gentlemen are known undet the different
appellations of bulls, pears, and lame ducks.

Stomach Worm. The ftomach worm gnaws; I am, hun-

gry-

Stone. Two ft one under weight, or wanting; an eunuch.
Stone doublet ; a prifon. Stone dead 5 dead as a. ft one., ^

Stone Jtfc Newgate, or any other prifon.

Stone Tavern. Ditto. . . .;

Stoop nappers, or Overseers of the new Pavement*.
Terfons fet in the pillory. Cant.

Stop Hole Abbey. The nick name of the chief rendez-
vous of the canting crew of beggars, gy pfies, cheats, thieves,.
&c. &c.

Stoter. A great blow. Tip him a ftoter in the haltering
place ; give him a blow under the left ear.

$toup. A veffel to hold liquor : a veffel containing a fizc, or,
half a pint, is fo called at Cambridge.

Stow. Stow you ; be iilent, or hold your peace. Stow your
whidds and plant'em, for the cove of the ken can cant'em :
you have faid enough, the man of the houfe understands
you.

Strait-laced. Frecife, over nice, puritanical.

Strait' Waistcoat, A tight waiftcoat, wjth long fleevea

coming

'Coming over the hands, having firings for binding them be-
hind the back of the wearer: thefe waift coats areufed-iu
madhoufes for the management of lunatics when outrageous,

Strammel. SeeSTAMMEL*
Stranger. A guinea.
Strangle Goose* A poulterer*
^Strapper. A large man or woman*
Stra ppi n g. Lying with a woman*- Cant.

^Str-aw The good woman in the ftraw ; a lying-in-woman.
His eyes draw ftraW; his eyes are atmoft (hut, or he is
almoft afleep : one eye draws ftraw, and t'other ferves the

; thatcher.

Stretching. Hanging. He'll ftretch for it; he will be
hanged for it. Alfo telling a great lie : be ftretched ftoutly.

Strike. Twenty fhilUngs. Canu

;SxRJP ME NAKED. Gin.

. [Stroke. To take a (broke ; to take a bout with a woman.

< ^yrollbrs. Itinerants of different kinds. Strolling morts ;
**•■"• l beggars or pedlars pretending to be widows.

Strom mel. Straw. Cant.

Strong Man. To play the part of the ftrong man, i. e.
to pufh the cart and horfes too; to be whipt at the cart's
tail.,

Stroud Green. The aldermen and corporation formerly met
at the Caftle in Fleet-lane.

Strum. Aperriwig. Rum ftrum; a fine large wig. Cant.

To Strum. To have carnal knowledge <rf a woman; alfo to
play badly on the harpfichord, or any other ftringed inftrp-
. ment. A ftrummer of wire; a player on any tnftrument
ftrong with wire.

Strumpet. A harlot.

Stub-faced. Pitted with the fmall-pox : the devil run over
his face with horfe ftubs (horfe nails) in his (hoes.

Stubble it. Hold your tongue. Canu

StulingKen* See Stalling Ken, Cant.

Stum. The flower of fermenting wine, ufed by vintners to

adulterate their wines.

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Stumps* Legs. To fUr one's ftumps ; to walk faft.

' Sturdy Beggars* The fifth and laft of the moft ancient

Dd 2 order

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order of canters, beggar that tather demand than a(k.

Cant, '*

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Successfully, Ufed by the vulgar for fucewfoefy : as, Three
or four landlords of this houfe have been ruined fuccefsfully
by the number of foldiers quartered on them. Irrjb.

Such a Reason pist my Goose, or my Goose fist* , Said
when any one offers an abfurd reafon.

Suck. Strong liquor of any fort. To fuck the monkey ; fee
Monkey. Sucky ; drunk.

Sucking Chicken. A young chicken.

Suds. In the fuds ; in trouble, in a difagreeable fituation, or
involved in fame difficulty.

Sugar Stick. The virile member.

Sugar Sops. Toafted bread foaked in ale* fweetened with
fugar, and grated nutmeg : it is eaten with cheefe.

Suit and Cloak. Good ftore of brandy, or other ftrbng
liquor, let down gutter lane.

SuLKY f A one horfe chaife, or carriage, capable of holding
but one perfon : called by the French a defobligeant*

Sun. To have been in the fun ; faid of one that is drunk* :

Sunburnt. Clapped ; alfo haying many male children. :

Sunday Man. One who goes abroad on that day only,: for
fear of arrefts.

Sunny Bank. , A good fire in winter,

Sunshine. Profperity.

Supernaculum. Good liquor, of which there is not even a
drop left fufficient to wet one's nail.

Supouch. A landlady of an inn, or hoftefs.

Surveyor of the Highways. One reeling drunk.

Surveyor of the Pavement. One (landing in the pillory.

Sus. per Coll. Hanged : perfons who have been hanged are
thus entered in the jailor's books.

Suspbnce. One in a deadly fufpence; a man juft turned off
at the gallows.

Sutler. . A camp publican ; alfp one that pilfers gloves,
tobacco boxes, and fuch fmall moveables.

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Swabbers. The ace of hearts, knave of clubs, ace and duce
oftrumpsi atwhift; alfo the lubberly fcameri, put to fwab
and clean the fhip,

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/5wad, orSwADKiN. A fola*ier. Canu

To Swaddle. To beat with aftick.

"'Swadlers. The tenth order of the canting tribe, who not
only rob, but beat, and often murder paffengers. C*ff/.—
Swaddlers is alfo the Irifh name for methodifts.

•Swag. A (hop. Rum fwag; a {hop full of rich goods.
Cant* y

Swagger. To bully, brag, or boaft; alfo to ftrut.

Swannery. He keeps a fwahnery; i.e. air his geefe are
fwans.

Sweating. A mode pf diminiming the gold coin, pra&ifed
chiefly by the Jews, who corrode it with aqua regia. Sweat-
ing wa,s alfo a diverfion practifed by the bloods of the laft
century, who fty led themfeives Mohocks : thefe gentlemen
lay in wait to furprife fome perfon late in the night, when
furrounding him, they with their fwords pricked him in the

! ' pofteriors, which obliged him to be conftantly turning
round ; this they continued till they thought him fufEcientljr

t fweated.

Sweet. Eafy to be impofed on, or taken in; alfo expert, dex-
terous, clever. Sweet's your hand ; faid of one dexterous at
ftealing, ■ -

Sweet Heart. A term applicable to either the mafculine or
feminine gender, fignifying a girl's lover, or a man's miftrcfs:
derived from a fweet cake in the fhape of a heart.

Sweetnbrs. Guinea droppers, cheats, fharpers. To fweeten ; *
to decoy, or draw in. To be fweet upon ; to coax, wheedle,
court/ or* allure. He feemed fweet upon that wench ; he
feemed to court that girL

Swelled Head. A diforder to which horfes are extremely
liable, particularly thofe of the fubalterns of the army. This
diforder is generally occafioned by remaining too long in one
livery-ftable or inn, and often arifes to that height that it
prevents their coming out of the ftable door. The moil cer-
tain cure is the unguentu?n aureum — not applied to the horfe,
but to the palm of the mailer of the inn or liable. N. B.
Neither this diforder, nor its remedy, is mentioned by either
Bracken, Bartlet, or any of the modern writers on farriery.

Swig. A hearty draught of liquor.

Swigmen. Thieves who travel the country under colour of
buying oH (hoes, old clothes, &c. or felling brooms, mops,
&c. Cant*

^p. Swill* To drink greedily.

Swill

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Swill Tub: A drunkard, a fot.

Swimmer. A counterfeit old c&su

To Sw x ng. To be banged. He will fwiag for it \ he will be
hanged for it.

Swing Tail, A hog.-, ,

To Swi woe. To beat'ffoutljr.

Swinging^ . A great f winging fellow;, a great flout fellow,
A fwingtiiglie; alufty'Be. /**

&windl£1« - One w^pj obtains goods on credit by falfc pre-
tences, and fells them far ready money at anv price*, in order
to make up a purfe. .This name is derived from the German

v word fcbivifidi/x, to totter, to be ready to fall ; thefe att&'W
ing generally pra&ifed by perfons on the totter, or iuft ready
to break. The term /windier has iince been ufed to fignify
cheats of every kind.

Swipes. JPorfer's fwipes ; fmall beer: fo termed on boaroVthe
king's (hips, where it is furniihed by the purler. *

Swish Tail. A pheafant; 4b called by the perfons w4te(iell
game for the poachers. AA:

To Swiyb. To copulate.

Swivel-eyed. Squinting, \ tJ

Swizzle. Drink, or any brifle or windy liquor, la North
America, a mixture of fpruce beer, rum, and fugar, was fb
called. The 17th regiment had a fociety called the Swizzle
Club, at Ticonderqga, A. D. 1 760.

Swop, An exchange,

Syebuck. Sixpence.

S y n t ax, A fchoolmafter.

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T A N

A BB Y. An old maid : either from Tabitha, a formal an-
tiquated name 5 or elfe from a tabby cat, old maids being
often compared to cats. To drive Tab j to go out on a party
" of pleafure with a wife and family; - lr '• <•

Tace. Silence, hold your tongue. Tace is Latin for a candle;
a jocular admonition to be filent on any fubjedt.

Tackls. A miftrefs; alfo good clothes. The cull has tipt
his tackle rum rigging ; tne fellow Has given his millreft good
, ..rfothes. A man's tatkle; the genitals.

Taffy, i.e. Davy. A general name for a Welchman, St.
i'^, David being the tutelar faint of Wales* Taffy's day; the
firft of March, St* David's day.

Tag-rag and Bobtail. An expreffion meaning an affem-
blage of low people, the mobility of all forts* To tag after
one like a tantony pig ; to follow one wherever one goes, juft

' as St. Anthony is followed by his pig.

^Att. A fword.

Taken in. Impofcd on* cheated.

Tale Tellers. Peribns faid to have been, formerly hired to
tell wonderful dories of giants and fairies, to lull their hearers
to fleep. Takfman ; the author of a ftory or report : I'll tell
you my tale, and my talefman. Tale bearers; mifchief
makers, incendiaries in families.

Tall Boy. A bottle, or two-quart pot.

Tally Men. Brokers that let out clothes to the womefr of
the town. See Rabbit Sucke-rs.

Tallywags, or Tarrywags. A man's tefticles.

Tame. To run tame about a houfe; to live familiarly in ft
family with which one i* upon a vifiu Tame army ; the city
trained bands.

T a n d e m,, A two-wheeled chaife, buggy, or noddy, drawn by
two hdffes, one before the other; that is, at length.

Ta n g 1 s r. A room in Newgale, where debtor? were confined,
hence called Tangerines.

^Tantad lin Tart. A {irreverence* human excrement.

Tan.

T*ht*i- mi. *Mt,>%tJjmmi ^wiihitoh&ty&it&jt

Tantwivt. Away they went tantwiTy: sway toey —

-.■fcB-«y,>eri!&t5fra|Mfr-Wte'*-' ~-"" **;* '" , £ ,
Tap. A gentle blow. rf^a^onlD^n^tcler ;*'an arreft. To

- .t*p-» gioWto. :fa&6&dplei>K*t$--im'*aitbmic> » werttrf.
■m wWlWifoa ffl iw rt ;=*gy» fcldaJwilp" -" * ' «■■"■■"■'

ous liquor, .-iwj J]* aiw.wo ;-J l.-r , . ■/ ■"■

Taplash. Thick ana bad beer. ■ a-waK ' •■ -•'■'•

Tah. Don't lofe a iheep for a halfpennyworth of. tat ; tar. it
ufed to mark fheep. A jack tar ; a tailor. ~ - ■..,

T^RA'DiDolfe.' 1 A fib/or falfity. . * . . "■ ,'

Tarfawlin. A coarje eloth. tarred over ; alb, figurati«Iy»
a fail or. _ . k V

AidFsA.TSS.SHtQr, A punilhinent lately inflifled
oodp;ople of. Soiton an any perfon convieied. ot.fitf-
of loyalty ; fuch delinquents being ftripped naked,
ubed all over with tar, and afterwards put ioUt *
i, of fearers. . ' •■..

out, (harp, quick, pert.
Tartar. To catch a Tartar ; to attack one offuperior ft^eifjjth
"•Oi abilities.'- 1 This faying originated from a ftory pi" an tlSfk

- ffildier in the Imperial fervice, who, in a battle agairuVrbe
^Turksj^ealled o«t to -his comrade that he had caught a Tar-
tar. ' Bring him along then* faid he. * He won't cofne,'

, aofwered Paddy, 'Then come along yourfelf,' replied hit
* comrade. ' Arrah,' cried he, ' but he won't let -mtH'—rA
Tartar is alfo an adept at any feat, or game : he is quite a
Tartar at cricket, or billiards. " t

T*t. Tit for tat; an equivalent.

Tats. Falfe dice.

Tatler. A watch. To fla(h aTatlcr ; towear a watch.

Tatmonger. One that ufes falfe dice.

Tatterdemallion. A ragged fellow, whofe clothes hang
all in tatters. . ,,

Tattoo. A beat of the dram, or fignal for foldicre to go. t6

their quarters, and a direflion to the futlers to clofe the tap,

and draw no more liquor for them : it is generally beat at

nine in fummcr and eight in winter. The devil's tattoo ;

beating'

VTftE \N •

beating the foot *gaiaft the gratad* 3* ^K by perfons iA
fowfpirits. . . .' . .

Taw*. A fchodboyV gaw% played wiA fiaaft foond bafla
made of ftonc dutt, "called mrbjet* ^ 1*11 jbe one upon 700c
taw presently ; a ipecies of threat, , ^

T*w»*r* G*r$**#wfr d^ wkh hifc** Sating and difcordant
colours ; a term (atd tci.be def vod feast the &fk*e. and altar
of St. Audrey (an lile of ; EJy^ainte£») # wjucb for fiacry ex*
ceeded all others thereabouts, fo as to became proverbial;

> whence any fihe'drefFed man orwomae was £ud to be all St.
Audrey, and by contraction aU tawdry*

Tawed. Beaten.

T*vle. See Tail. / "

Tails Drawers* Thieves who {hatch gentlemen's fworda
from their fides. He drew the cull's tail rumly ; he fnatched.
away tfee gentleman's- fword cleverly.

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Tailor. Nine tailors make a man ; an ancient and common

> faying, originating from the effeminacy of their employment ;
* or, as fome have it, from nine tailors having been robbed by
7 one man ; according to others, from the fpeech of a woollen-

** 4faper t meaning that the cuftom of nine tailors would make
or enrich one man, — A London tailor, rated to furnlih half
a man to the trained bands, a (king how that could poffibly be

.done? was anfwered, By fending four journeymen and an ap-

E entice.— Put a tailor, a weaver, and a miller into a fack,
ake them well, and the firft that puts out his bead is cer-
tainly a thief. — A tailor is frequently ftylcd prickloufe, from
their aflaults on thofe vermin with their needles. .

Tailor's Goose. An iron with which, when heated, they
prefs down the feams of clothes.

Tea Voider. A chamberpot.

Tbagu e land. " Ireland. Teaguclanders ; Irifhmen.

Trars of theTankard. The drippings of liquor on a man'a
waiftcoat.

Teddy my Godson. An addrefs to a fuppofed fimplc fellow,
or ny fey.

Tiize. To nap the teize; to receive a private whipping.
Cant*

Temple Pickling. Pumping a bailifFr a punifhment for*
merly adminiftered to any of that fraternity caught exercifing
their functions within the limits of the Temple.

T^nTq^s. See Bayard of ten Toes,

Ee Tim

Ten ik THt.HutfDRio. , An ufurej;;. inore than five in th£

Tesant at Will. One whofc wife ufually fetches' Him frqm
• thealehoufe, <-'' r ; -': • '■•■■ ! . ; • • ., c ,. 5

Tender. ?ab.nelj^ , £ *cider.,cjeaturej> fearful of.the;lcaft
pu# of wind RR. 4FqR^" °C Jwi'V. .• "iV*VMide* a« .PaunpcH* who

tyr ofc kljpjjfff }ft a>piTe^ d«5nk.' ' . • !

5i»»cbaj<Jb»tmj« >t,A>ieh man. • . .•

*

TERH^Wx^^^^^Afl^tfagedos fcbld : from Termagahtes; a
cruel Pagan, formceiy f^pffifentfd in divers {hows and entet-

c .t^n^t^^w^eJpe^ng; defied « /* T*rjue t in long clothe^
he was miftaken tor a ftirious woman.

Tbrra Firma. An eftate in land.

Teitxjl, j .. A fi*p?npe : from teflon^ a coin with a head on it# •

Tetbury Pojltion* A**** and a dap*

Thames. He will not find ont a way to fet the Thames an
fire ; he will not make any wonderful difeoveries, he is no
conjurer, ^ .. r

Thatch-gallows. A rogue* or man of bad character.

Thick. Intimate* They are as thick as two inkle weavers*

7?hijHHi ,youpju?.'£ thief and a murderer, you have killed*
baboon and dole his face ; vulgar afcufe.

Tjftjf f fc# f a^Qa £d lb* Part of the wick or fnuff> which ftllv
; /ing^n tl^t^w, tons and melts it, and caufing it to gutter,
o ^s^eaja i$ away. - '

Thief Takers. Fellows who aflfociate with all kinds of Mil-
Jains, in ordej?, to betray them, when they have committed
any of thoie crimes which entitle the perfons taking them to
a hand fame reward, called blood money. It is the bufinefe,
of thefe thief takers to furnifh fubjects for a hand fame execu-
tion, at the end of every feflions.

Thingstable. Mr. Thingftable ; Mr. Conftable : a ludi-
crous affectation of delicacy in avoiding the pronunciation of
the firft fy liable in the title of that officer, which in found
has fome fimilarity to an indecent monofyllable.

Th ingumbob. Mr, Thingumbob ;, a vulgar addrefs or nomi-
nation to any perfon whofe name is unknown, the fame as
Mr. What-d'ye-caH'em. Thingumbobs; tefticles.

Th 1 r d 1 n g. A cuflom praclifed at the uni verfities, where two*
thirds of the original price is allowed by the upholfterers tq.
the ftudents for houfehold goods returned to them within the
year.

Thi*-

Th i r t e e n e r. "A firi^iftj j ta ; |^Jfui^ idrosK i r^buere paffes for
thirteen- pence. ' ' *' \/ "

TupMORD. Like Lord Thomond's cocks, al^ on one, .fide.
r Lord Thomond's cock feeder, an Iriftiman, being entrufteji
,f \wit}i fofne cocks whick were ma^&oi fora J c^!rdexaulfc fahiy
° l the night before the ^6aylfe^l^\tBeni'lfl to^efh^ir fr. One
room, concluding that, * as tliej^ Wtte all W> [ xhP&M ri 'Me 9
they would not difagree : thm ttehfeSjuenefc n^/ *hg$£ weios
..- moft of them eithe* kiUed prlagtwl wf<XP, d«.«WMW»* ;a , ^
vFhoma*. ManTliohia«. ! r-a'nl^^peflrfapnno} ^n/igfi'i buio

• ItWorks* To be or At updn' ifioii gWfcTafet&g 1 fipflBitt
anxious for an event. ' ■ " <^>*n™1 n&zfiimuF* *T

Thornback. Anoldmaid: l - 1 b:fA ' A ^ fi ^- ,T

Thorough Churchman." A perion wfrb : |aes matoWddofr
of a church, and out at the other, : w4thottt5fapf>ifig,f ;? j 2 v:i I 1

Thorough good-natured Wench*' OntfWho being 1 a&eA
' to fit down, will lie down. • s • "~ •

^Thorough go nimble. A loofenefs, a violent purging. '

Thorough Cough. Coughing and breakfng'NvJnd back*
wards at the fame time, - : ' f " ' :aL , " 2rj ' H *

T&cvrough Stitch. T* go thorough Jjftittftu°<&> ft&*! H at
nothing, over fhoes, over boots. ; - K^i bos noodnd

Tsnaxsc ht. What did thought do? htf-Art fa*- MA VHK$

v-iiHnfeif, and thought he was up j rcptoof*6a^&fe WhBISx-

cufes himfelf for any breach of pofitive ofrdtirdj ^ijr^ea^feig

j.tha* he thought to the contrary, /^ ..?? ^aT 3 7ihT

Thr&e to One. He is playing three to ohe^ ^theu^h fiiteko
' ' lofe ; faid of one engaged in the amorous congtfefsl '/"■ ( ;tr

Three-penny Upright. A retailer of love, wjiofor the
fum mentioned, difpenfes her favours (landing againfl a
wall.

Threb-l egged Mare, or Stool. The gallows, formerly
confiding of three polls, over which were laid three trahfverfe
beams. This clumfy machine has lately given place to an
elegant contrivance, called the new drop> by which the ufe of
that vulgar vehicle a cart, or mechanical inftrument a ladder,
is alfo avoided ; the patients being left fufpended by the
dropping down of that part of the floor on which they ftand.
This invention was firft made ufe of for a peer. See Drop.

Three Threads, Half common ale, mixed with ilale and
double beer.

Threps, Threepence.

E e % Throttle.

T. 10 MT

Throttle. The throat, or gullet, ,>'.wl /• T

T$ Thrums Texplaysonjatiy inJhnment^ftringdd with wir&
A thrutomcxof .wine ?'.a player x>ni the fpinet, harpfichtodi or

gUUat. ' , ' ... 'i3 >':? mi w

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Thummikin^;: ^iAit^in^iiJin£mt:fortwcrIy ufed in Scotland, Kke
^,a .yic£ p ; t,Q ){ pjncb, the^nmlft of R er f on * accufed of different

Taunm 1.A1 blow* 1 -This isr better than a thump on the back
with a (lone ; faid on giving any one a drink of good liquor

• en a,cc44r morning.. -Thatch* thiille, thunder, and thumps
words to lqq iriibi like the Shibboleth of the Hebrews.

Thumping. Great: a thumping boy. ]'

Thwack. A great blow with a ifcick acrofs the fhoulder* ?.
Tib, A young lafs.

Ijfcai'irihtitM' <Btii>**fcYV A goofe. C*«/.— Saint TiM/s
evening ; the evening of the laft day, or day of judgment ;
A .J19 .will, payjpu. off St, Tibb's eve. Irijb*

Tl^K. ■ Tq run oiliok; take up goods upon truft, to run U)
c debt. Tick ; a watch. See Sejfions Papers* ,,.,

Tickle Text. A parfon. . , <p

Tickle Pitcher. A thirfty fellow, a fot* . \. r

Tickltj Ta.il* A rod, or fchoolmaUer.

Tick rum. A licence*

Tidy. Neat.

Tj f fi ng. Eating or drinking out of meal time, difputing of
falling out; alfo lying with a wench. A tiff of punch; a
fmall bowl of punch.

Tilbury. Sixpence; fo called from its formerly being the
fare for crofiing over from Gravefend to Tilbury fort.

Tilt. To tilt; to fight with a fword. To run full tilt

againft one; allufion to the ancient tilting with the lance,
Tilter. A fword.

Ti m Whis k y. A light one-horfe chaife without a head. <
Timber Toe, A man with a wooden kg.

Tiny,

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Tiny.' Lktie, -)JJv)i : u> ,w>if!t v!T t ;j ; rov 7

3>a Tip. s ^F<> gi^e^oar'fenriLi Tip rme/^qiw Baddies $iv r e wife

•? •. ybatr haqcL -j Tip rheit bog^gii^Bi^aTflwflingk irToiip-the
lion; to flatten a man's no fe with the thumb, anctatrthe
fame time to extend his mouth with t^^fiagersK thereby jjifp
ing him a fort of lion-like countenance, ^o tig the velvet*
tonguing a woman. To/tip' all : firrte.; tblcnbcl^ fown^iftfhe

' " nine pins at once, at the 'sifrie of boVls'rtf f&iftlfe f : riopinz,
at thefe games, is flight^ fefcm£ t1# fo^ tnt^ir£%ih

• the bowl. Xip » a draaghri : rdonlto JGjdqUi tos tip^ ujm u *.j h7

Tip-top.' The beft : perhaps fi6tf rruitt trla£ ^ftfiwrnf % tte
top of the tree being generally the lieltV as' p'artaftirfg^iff of
. the fun. A tip r top. workman; did &euVoi<3mfeft exccMerik
- workman. ...,-..,;: . .«,- --< - -...v^ f r '^'^

Tippbrary Fortune. Two town lands, ftream's to wn j and
ballinocack ; faid of Irifti women without fortohe. Lr

f ' .- ■<•/<•

Tipple. Liquor. <:'£

Tipple rs. Sots who are continually? «lipping*' A x 1 v w ► . T

Tipsey. "Almoft drunk. ih : •j-\ T n)\h ,*uT

Tj r'i n g . Dreffing ; perhaps abbreviation of ddh&g, • *Krlfi|j;
t Mrpnien, or tire women; woolen that uftdrtfc cstfiadtej baflj
j- ; and drefs them* * ,- t. . ^ uu. 75, <>rh t gnirmd

Tj t. A horfe. A pretty little tit * a «6aT» fiftfc v ^ftll li w i?4rr,

t-tfr tid bit; a delicate morfeU Tbmm^ftitjiiaiftBart^Hwy

little fellow. Ai;/*r>,<biT ,'chb

Tit for Tat. An equivalent. :■'»* ; ■ A c 1 v ? T x ;;* :■ jT*
To Titter. To fuppreft a laugh. ^ • - < ' •• 1 - " * i"

Titte. r-tatter. One reeling, and ready to fall at fheleaft

touch -j alfo the child ifh amuiement of riding upon the two

ends of a plank, poifed upon a prop underneath its centre*

called alfo fee-faw. Perhaps tatter is a ruftic pronunciation

. of totter.

Tittle-tattle. Idle difcourfe, fcandal, women's talk,
or fmall talk.

Tittup. A gentle hand gallop, or canter.

Tizzy* Sixpence.

To a d E a t e r. A poor female relatibn, an humble companion,
or reduced gentlewoman, in a great family, the (landing butt,
on whom all kinds of practical jokes are played off, and all
ill humours vented. This appellation is derived from a
mountebank's fervant, on whom all experiments ufed to be
made in public by the doftor, his matter j among which was

the

t&c eating of toads* formerly .j^p^rcd.gp^fofioas,;. /^ajfotf.

irtg toads is here, figuratively *mearit fof wallowing or putting

f --*) ^i*'«M»rti % d?l&rtefl*f fa .*' peif&n ofttfefin^S

Toad* Toad in a hole; meat.J>aked or .boiled in pjjb,crti{L
He or ft^lHWe" a>tM ofr* &<foify4Aockf l i hjitig'tt

trj#B¥<&*i'tek®& t t ^Uhon>tbefiatiack^ , As nuscb need of it w a
toad of a ftde-poc^^iiaidiorlajpdrfoii wtua driire* any thing

* Voaar is oFFeathers.

Toas;^ yi.^^ *^,* ; fcaitito^woaaj^wfcofc heattb/f*

. !4^t^i>4^n|c'I>v me^*, .. ( Tbe,.orjgirt of this term fa* it is iajd)

^ was thif ; m $ p r wu,'t;fal Jady bathing in, a cold bath, oae of her

admirers Put of gajlantry .drank .'fome of the water; where* .

irpon another ofner lovers obferved, he never drank jm the

morning, but he would kifs the toaft, and im mediately fainted

• *heladf.

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To ait inc Iron, qv Cheise Toaster, A {word. v .

Tobacco* A plant, once in great eftiraatioa as a.mcdktaet

; Tobaceo hk . v . i"

Witt main joh *wtll if you ie JicK , ^

: .x <\ . o '-'tfyiu I* <wetl yriill male joujicl.

ToWdy* Oiiginajlythe jiricc of the cocoa tiee> and aite$warift>
swa? water* fugar, .and nutmeg,

Toe>gs» Beat all to a todge ; faid, of any thing beat to maftw

Tck5E» A coaU Cant. • : i ,c kT

To&em>**. A cloak. Cant. .1 -v:.T

TpKjn^ : The plague; aHb the venereal difta/e* She'tipfo3
\ ,bim ttej token;; (be gave him a clap or pox*

'T«ty otTqlbek)* A^word: from Spanifti fwords made at
Toledo, whicli place was famous for fword blades of an ex-
traojdinwy temper* ^

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Tol Tawdrst m. To talk to! tawdram ; a term ufed by Indies
to fignify talking a little loofely, making ufe of double $nv

tendres.

Tot lib an Rig. A fpecies of cheat carried on by -a woman^
ailbnaing the character of a dumb and deaf conjurer.

Tom T— dm an. A night mat*, one who empties, neceflary
hoafes.

Tom roy* A romping girl, who prefers the amufements ufed
try boys, to thofe of her own fex«

Tom

I-

7. o° ■?

Tom of Bedlam. The fame as abeam man.

iALfTii^o >"»'- ■?.■-».•• ."'V^ - : '^- r ' vi-'aiisi'^t ?i"v» ••■-V'- ,:: '." '

^oj^kotfc,, .A. iiretprne, ftory. JpUfflft &i*]PW^% w Toai
*"' Bong, the carrier; Taid of any 1 &&&$!&$** bw* li^gcx*

^kT<wmb, A dwarf, a little £op-o, -^ri&JlPfa vo /.;

g&MMT* : Soft'Tomirfy, orwHte'nrami*5^i^t&i*>0dled

rjrb> fitikw* to ditingolib'itteifaiKfcaw^^q-DbPi r/io L>x*?

WMoR*ow-caMEk'BV£*V'V^^

never*

TdircuE. Tongue .ghpog)h : f§r i\#p. l *i?& 6fiU^;^vUgi^k

< • talkative perfon. As oTd : lai ;j iny; - ? ip^ii8> r y^4^^ilixCl6 : older

v than my teeth; a dovetail in griftvef' id tfie qtWftion, How

old are you ?- Tongue pad ; a fcoidi or ^irftb^cf-.tdngbei per-

Tony. A filly fellow, or ninny. A. mere ton^-; a fim-
pleton.

Tool. The inftrument of any perfon or faciioii, a cat*s vxm+
^SeeCAT'. Paw. ''^^ l( J A *°' : - T " ;

Tooth Music. Chewing. ^ v.^a T

To Top. To cheat, or trick ; alfb to lfijl^lt: he thought to
have topped upon me. Top; >hc"'«gnat WP^g^aylors foe
fnu fling the candles: he who laft "pronounces thit word, i&

^ uWigc4 target up and perform the opefe<^#i r S nG .tikioT

Top Diver. A lover of women. Ah 616?i<&> diver Vone^wW

4&*.lo**d<oid hat in his time. S- °~ ri Q * ^ jK ^ <>3oaoT

Top Heavy. Drunk. • '•> .iso* A ,sr>oT

Top Lights. The eyes. Blaft your tof^Kghfe. •8«fc fl GW»^i , i

Tef t&a^X. He paid his debts at Portfmdtitfi witk tKe top-fail ;

il e. he went to fea and left them unpaid* So foldiers arc
.. faid to pay off their fcores with the drum ; that is, by march*

ing away.

Tope r. One that loves his bottle, a foaker. See To Soak.

Topping Fellow. One at the top or head of his profefiioa.

Toppinc Cheat, The gallows. Cant*

Topping Cove. The hangman. Cant.

Topping Man. A rich man.

Topsy-turvy. The top fide the other way; i.e. the
" wrong fide upwards : fome explain it, the top fide turf ways,
turf being always laid the wrong fide upwards.

^Torchkcul Bumfoddcr,

T©*«

T R A

Tormentor of -Catgut. A fiddler.

Tory. An advocate for abfolute monarchy and church power J
alfo an Irifh vagabond, robber, or rapparee.

Toss Pot. A drunkard.
Toss off. Manual pollution.
Totty- headed. Giddy, hare-brained.

Touch. To touch; to get money from any one; alfo to
arrcft.. Toocbed in the wind; broken- winded. Touched
in the head ; infane, crazy. To touch up a woman ; to have
carnal knowledge of her. Touch bone and whijlle ; any one
having broken wind backwards, according to the vulgar law,
may be pinched by any of the company till he has touched
bone (i« c. his teeth) and whittled,

Toucif Bun for Luck. See Bun.
Tout. A look-out houfe, or eminence.

Touting. [From tut rf, to look about.] Publican* fore*
foiling gueits, or meeting them on the road, and begging
their cuitom; alfo thieves or Smugglers looking out t©ice
that the coaft is clear. Touting ken ; the bar of a public

houfe.

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Tow Row. A grenadier. The tow row club; a club ot
fociety of the grenadier officers of the line.

Towel. An oaken towel, a cudgel. To rub one down with
an oaken towel ; to beat or cudgel him. /

Tower. Clipped money: they have been round the tower
with it. Cant.

To Tower. To overlook, to rife aloft as in a high tower.

Tower Hill Play.. .A flap on the face, and a kick on the
breech.

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Town. A woman of the town; a proftitute. To be on the
town ; to live by proftitution.

Town Bull. A common whoremafter. To roar like a town

bull ; to cry or bellow aloud.

To Track. To go. Track up the dancers; go up ftaits.

Cant.

Trading Justices. Broken mechanics, difcharged foot-
men, and other low fellows* fmuggled into the commiffion
of the peace, who fubfift by fomenting difputes, .granting
warrants, and otherwife retailing juftice : to the honour o£.
the prefent times, thefe nuifanccs are by no means fo common
as formerly.

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Translators. Sellers of old mended fiioes and boots, be-
tween coblers and fhoemakers.

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To Transmographt, or Thansmiorify. To patch up*

. vamp, or alter. ' . *

To Tra nsnear. To come up with any body. *

Trant*r See Crocker.

^rap. To understand trap-; to know one's own hxtereft. :

Tr a p St i c k s. v Thin legs, gambs : from the flicks with' which
boys play at trap-ball.

Traps. Con&ibles and thief-takers. Qant*

■v * .

To' Tra pan. To inveigle, or enfnare.

Trapes. A flatternly woman, a caxelefs flnttiih woman.

Traveller. To tip. the traveller; to tell wonderful ftorie9>
to romance.

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Travelling Pto^uet. A mode of araufmg themfelves*
pra&ifed by two p^rfons riding in a carriage, each reckon-
- ing towards his game the perfons or animals that pais by on
Hhc fide next them, according to the following eft i mat ion;

A parfon riding a grey horfe, with blue furniture ; game.

An old woman under a hedge ; ditto.

A cat looking out of a window ; 60.

A man, woman, and child, in a buggy ; 40.

A man with a woman behind him; 30.

A flock of (been ; 20.

A ditto of geefe ; 1 o.

A poft chaife ; 5.

A horfeman ; 2.

A man or woman walking ; 1.

Tray Trip, An ancient, game like Scotch hop, played on a
pavement .marked out with chalk into different compart*
. meats* t

Tre ncher Cap. The fquare cap worn by the collegians, at
the univerfities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Trencher Man. A ftout. trencher man; one who has a
good appetite, or, *as the term is, plays a good knife and
fork.

TrsSwins. Threepence.

Taifc*. A prifon r perhaps from tribulation.

Trickttm Leg i s. A quirk or quibble in the law.

Trig, The point at which fchoolboys ftand to (hoot their
marbles at taw ; alfo the fpot whence bowlers deliver the
bowl.

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Trim

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To Trio it. To play truan^ To lay a man trigging;

knockliim&oWrr^ v ^^ -" iJ <' T *^ " • ■ ^ ^

RYfiATE. An idle female companion. **■}■-"

. State, drefs, Ih a fad mm; dirty.— Alfo fp'rtjctf bf
, .fine; a trim iellow. # , , ;

Trim tram. Lite mailer, fike man. ' " * ' * ^,; > *

^WMfM^^.; ^eaiir^f^njing fidf, w bating. £ll tuft
f . ...hlsjaq^iiL^.t^^^irr^. ^ To l>e trimmed ^ to be fliaved i

Tringum tranoum. A whim* or maggot.

••^MrW/' Hangitfg; ■ «"' •- .- -,'*

Tax hkxjs, , ,' Tcjys^ bawDtcsj or nicknacks»

Trip, A fhort voyage or journey, a falfe ftep or ftumbfe^ an,
error in the tongue, a baftard. She has made atrip ; fhe has
had a baftard. * *

. Trjpe* ..Tfce belly, or guts. Mr. Double Trioe ; a fat man.
. ^ Trjpes and trullibubs 5 the entrails : alfo a jeering appellatioa
.-,. fbr.a'fat'man^

To Troll. To loiter or faunter about.

TROivy.LO^-tY^ Coarfe, lace, once much in faihior*.

Trollop. A lully coarfe fluttifh woman.

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Trooper. Half-a-cr©w% You will die the death of a troope*'*
horfe, that is, with your {hoes on ; a jocular method l of
telling any one he will be hanged. i J " ; ;, f

Trot. An old trot ; a decrepit old woman. *A dog* trot** a
gentle pace. '.•-''*

. Trqtters. .' IWr/' To'fcake one's ttotter* at 'Bitey's \>tiU
where the fiieriff payi the rldlers ; perhaps tlie Bilboe* 'baH>
i. e. the ball of fetters ; fetters and docks were anciently
called &e bilboes.

To Trou n^ e. To puni(h by coisffe of law. *

Truck. To exchange, fwop, or barter; alfo a wheel fuch at
{hips' £uns are placed upon. /

True BRiTOMflV^ts.nonojirable corporation liefdtbeir/an-
, nvul, feaft at the/Tftree. Kings, in the Minories,' Oft; 20,
1743, being lord mayor's day. ; v h

Tr ug. A dirty puzasje, an ordinary forry woman. .

Tr,ull^. : ,A,foidijef oratinker'a.trpJl; a foldier pr tinjcer s^e-
inale companiQn,~(2#te//, or trulli* are fpirits^ Ufele' Ay^rnen^
which (hew great kindnefs to men, and fiereof it is &at we

call

Hr % p

call Tight women Trails. Ranili Hotms's 4jMemjf4r-

.Thumbs *¥• An old ^ whore, .or goods of no value; flA-

Trp y j , ^ •V70['*)} mill *? ..Vfc'l*. "

rumpet* To found ones own .trumpet: to praife one's

%. uVe ETXkV \ 4lfc &*ng! ^^ W^ff&tery MHttiKg
afs.* His trumpeter w'deadj.h^^ ffieWf^ferctfd *6*fcund
his own trumpet. He would ;ftWe aMScHrfcfeHBft 4fOr£pcter,
for he has a ftrong bre^lfef^' f IEid)Iof;Q^Mxiha(f1ng,3&f{^tfd
breath. ...-«;■ v>. t ,-,.-,,. \ ,v.jc, :An *vyr.^:« J r

Trumps, * To be put to one's trumps ; ( itqj^q diffitQpltje&sjMr
put to one's (hifts, Something may tjirn up trumps ; fome-
thing lucky may happen. All his cards are trtiiAptf'j 4 he is
extremely fortunate. • v - * :tj.*' A ,*;r

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Truhdlers. Peas. * J ' ! "

Trunk. A nofe. How fates your old trunk ? dpes your nofe

_, ft ill ftand faft? an allufion to the probofcis of trunk gf an

elephant. To (hove a trunk ; to introduce one VTelHfdhaJked

into any place or company. Trunk-maker like ; mdre Aoifc

than work. ' ; ; - . /( 1

Trusty Trojan, or Trusty ^r6utV A'ftwefrtafc*'.'

T*yning* SeeTaiNiNG.

^Ty Quq<^ue. The mother of all fainK

Tub Thumper. A preibyteriaji parfbn* ,

e, T? u&k sd u t . Hanged. A tucker up %o an old bachelor or
widower; a fappofed miftrefs. ' * ' ' ...''..''

..Tuft Hunter, An iniverfity paxafite, .099 who courts the
, .•' aoquaintance of nobility, whole caps are adorned with a gold

Tumbler. A cart; alfo a fharper employed to draw in
pigeons to game ; likewife a podure- matter, or rope-dancer.
. To (hove the tumbler, or perhaps tumbril ; to be whipt at the
cart's tail.

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-rT4iT,VHi. To beat: his father taned, him delightfully : per-
- ., naps ftpm fetching a tune out 6f the .perfon beaten, or from

a comparifon with the d(fagteeabl£ founds of inftruments

when tuning. '

Tup. Aram; figuratively, a'cuckbid. :

Tvp Running. A rural fpoif practifed at wakes and fair* in
/ D*jby(bire ; a ram, whofe tail is well foaped and ^reafed, is

H 2 turned

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> ta^.p^to^he # m^ude£ .any.pnf Aflt :W i take ^a^ty
the tail, ^n^f^k*?* fafe ^^.ffW^^/flF^WW^i^

T — d. There were four t— ds fording; fttf^^d,,r)pjfl^^ir,
tread t - d, and muf-t— d: tow'uL'a hog^face, feet, and
chitterlings, w^^tiftiraV^Me^wlll nevfrtt^-* Vftamaa's

****?; i^o&e^tfrl^ #rtortf tfttf \efy Ir^fiiji HoVfljf? QT
attend and bet ^Fhirft-raceV aft faidto Be on the tor'f.' r ' _

3**;**. ?:A^el,^d*e^d r rna^ Ttijt^ treatment ; BaK
- - r b^ott^ftfe*?. <Tuflaffi*'more j^lSkniSeth,* SoutKwarfc, ind
- -Rdthtthklfc fid^^h^Thimei K Jt v " ' '' '

Turkey Merchant. A poulterer*

^tf r^ c'<J a#^ "tme w&o has changed his .party from interested
motives,

Turnip-pated. White or fair haired. -*"

Turnpike. Ma^j* £ par,fpn ; becaufe the clergy colled theft
tolls' it our entrance into .and" exit from the world.

TusKitt. ^country carter or ploughman.

Tuzzy-muzzy. The monofy liable. J

TwA^^^. lT y^pJwtyj confufion* or any thing elfe: a f£
t.^onal^e iejp^that.jSor &' while, fucceeded that oLSore* See

Twangey, or Stangey. A north country name for a
taylor. » v •> .>•.••.= •• < • «•'• <**

Twe ague. In a great tweague ; in a great paffidn. . ^Twel*
guey ; peeviih, pailionate.

To Tweak. To pull : to tweak any one's nofe.
TweTve*.""" A~thlHing. - -.«—

Twiddle-diddles. Tefticles.
Twiddle-poop. An effemifiate* looking fellow.

To Twig. To obferve. Twig the cull, he is peery ; obferve
the fellow, he is watching us. Alfo to difengage, fnap afun-
der, or break off. To twig the darbies ; to knock off the
irons. \ r '

Tw ist. A mixture of half tea and half coffee ; Bfe^fejyfcnd/,
beer, and eggs. Aggoc* twlft .; a good appetite* ; ^m*

Twisted. Executed, hanged* .d. -lib

To Twit. .Tp^p^oa^^^pe^^^or,. reptbd hint jpfrhwo^ii
conferred f - \ . ... ,,.,..- v .v j,,»a .../.r^^^

Twitter,

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Two Th . BV46rrft$&tt)]!ig & dHoauiBv-jjAitinndlieatiQg hWrttads

k. «»»* bit jGo> ,to, waj^ %ri?lfr m^dg^c^r ;^W

-iFfo. JBeafcng tr^ tfpojtjy, M d £9ftPfrJ3 I W-3<>.~i bnE hns?jr.

Two.xo, One $*}Qf..y ^^yo^k^: jq^p?g J&utflfe

/ three bluebells, jthe iign qf r jtka£)jttf»^; o^^^i^h^r its

being two to one that t^go^di^p^i^fl ^Wri^H^i'e-

Two-handed. Great, A tWhanM fellow or w^pc^
'great ftrapping matt or woman. Two-nanded ^u^^tne
amorous congrefs. p "~ * ' -

Tye. A neckcloth. ' * " ^ \1

Tyburn Blossom. A young thief or |>ic1c[)0cketi^wjip^ 111
time will ripen into fruit borne by the deadly never-green. t

Ttburn Tippet. A halter: fee Latimei's fermon oetoie
Edward VI. A. D. 1549* :i .y.\sum-y*:-jT

T*burt* Top, or Forbtop. Awig ^toteWtW^Bel

^over the eyes iii a knowing < ftyte :^ &^ : %fcih$ ?r4$$Pw$rn

by the gentlemen pads, fcamps, divers, and other knowing

„ bauds. . - . ■ ••;•'., ,y;\.:-:i a a r

Tyke. A dog f alfo a clown : a Yorkfhire tyke. - " '*-•
Ty*EY. rSceTlNBY, :-- •-*- •;. -■ .stio^x'wT

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V*0AKI«S. Frolics/ wild iamjik«r \ V , \',-
Vainglorious, or OsTENXfjioys tyffifff .Qne wha feoa^s
without reafon, or, as the Centers fay, pifles.inore than he
drinks. -*'- r '> ^^•v.:».-r ..:.-, ^

V^l^tIkb*: The firnVw«&aft/> feen Tjy a irriari,' ot man fren.
by a woman, on St. Valentine's day, the 14th of February,

5 7 * -;*>-:'■ when

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parel; like wife to put new feetfo ( 6klfe#>ft*' •
Vam^r*. '^ocfclnM X 1 ;i '•'"•• L - *' »- ;• ~- v -vt? - J
Yak.., Madam ykn.;..fee Madam, r [ •

breafts; a bulhel bubby* \ / -,*

V^irttiriniT^^v^Qllei's/yajrdy i oi^ .yetalicl of opinion^ , , 4

Vj(rlits^ Now xaguea and ifcfaaki fpHi^riyy^^men'sJcxv

• ;iraritn« > -* ■ : c- ■- r -: .-i - v . * •; , \ . ■. . f , ,

V&tf Lhri'tf^G'SeHobt. A bawdy-boafc J alio an academy where
" vaulting and other ttlahfy fex&roifes 0rc taaght. -.-••* .

Velvet. To tip the velvet; to put one's tongue into a woman's

- mouth: 1 To bfe tipon vdvet ; ' to have the bed of a bet ot

niatch. k To the fittle gentleman in velvet, i. e, the*»k

• trratahxew up jtihe hUl that -eaufe.d Crop ;( King William's
horfe) to (tumble.;. a toaft frequently drank by the tones and

catholics in Ireland. ., - -

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Venerable Monosy liable. Pudendum mulifbre.

Vernonians* . The gentlemen belonging to this honourable
ibciety held, their meeting at the Rofe Tavern, In Cheap-

Vessel op Paper, . Haifa quarter of a fheet,

Y!Ca&,of Bray. See, Bray*

Vice 7Xt>MrRAL or the Narrow Seas. A drunken titan
1 that pHfes under thfe table into his companions 1 (hote& , •'-•''

Vjctualung Office* The jtomach.

ViKcfewf 'tf Law. The arfr.of cheating at cards, compofed of
the following <aflbciate*: bankers* thoie who play booty;
the gripe, he tha^J)e#s$;^and ^the, perfon cheated,, who is
fly led tne vincent ; the gains acquired, termage.

YiV^AMf- , A^a^jgpep |o .the perfon who, with a whip an

ttJbm'before Jiis eyes, keeis the1rfn£cle!ay,

.hi« hand, f an4at}a^ , ,.. # ,. . . . f A .

at boxing.m^^a^i^el.ol^

a cloak* , '.."*.

Vixen. A termagant.; alfc a (he Tpafi ^hb,' wheft"^ hat
cubs, is icmarkabfy- fierce^ :) K v '^ 7 -•- ' - >: "- 'i J . £■• .'

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To Vowel. A gamefter who docs not immediately pay hi»

S- ' 4^&»gl/?isfi6idJfi0rivo«ieiiheI wlnadr^ by * dpeating iheisriwek
I. O. U. or perhaps from giving his note for the*nH)pey

fecurity among* 3e*tI*m£B. tV: , ,^ a ^ 0J ^^r ? blfiq

Uncle. Mine uncle's ; a neceflfary JkQuJe^ 0) J£e i$«gqrjg, 4 tp
vifit his uncle ; faying of one wjip leases imwife jpon after
marriage. It likewife means k paton%rdl&r s F'fjjjdboi patf iiett

*-• ate fkfqueiftff Yaid^t^'^'a««i£iijft4(hdt 9 4^ laid >il|f in 4a£
vender. -vvdcfud hiftur* i ; eiteyrrj

Understrapper / An interior iuia^^bfe^ '0|(ie3parti«flr«^ V

^NFORTttNAf "E GBNTL^fsitir. ■ Th© iiflde^^

named themfelves in Germany, where a general officer! facing

■• them very awkward in ^91^^,. #p their ^
the devil they were s to which. Tome 9* ^m'a^w^e^un-

. fortunate gentlemen,

UsjfOHTUNATE Womeh. ProfUjtutcs, ; jfo tej'mfd by.-^g^ir*
;, . (nous and companionate ,of their own; fe$. J ; ; : r . { | y . £f j.

Ungrateful Mak. A parfoiv who 'at.fcaft; oneciJajflriaek
;i abufes his beft benefactor* i* e, *tfefcid©riL\j-.:i. ;'"> 3 » .fnoj

UnGUENTUM AUREITM. A bribe. •' , '" T '" , - V, i -^ ^:i"j.l*rv

Unicor n. A coach drawn by three horles/ v - • * r ° - ' 4

ft tf tiffci d Cub* A tads uncotrth yeang fellow^ * ' ~* * • v - \* *

Unrigged 1 , UndrefTecJ, or (tripped*/ Unrig the iraij ^.'^rip
the wench. '"

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Un truss. To untrufs a point; to let dpwn bheVbreeches in

order to eafe one's felf. Breeches' wtere fofmafty^ie&Svittf

*aotttt», which till larely wcrediftribute^t^.ibf^j^^er/

Whit Monday by the churchwar<3^Qft.c^ r jn^ f Qf^ti^ pari(hes

• in London, under the dendmination of tags : thefe tags
were worfteds of different colodrs twitfed 'up to a* fee } Tome'-

- s wliat thicker than packtfartadj'jattd feajgged *t.b"bth ends with,
. ;titi. Laces were at theTairre drae gtvea-to tfce gitls.

Untwisted. Undone, ruincdi'-dbrfc'fupl- 11 '' _ -

Unwashed Bawdry. Rank ba#dr^. • J 4>

ty^To'jp zip ,Gps.sip;/Wtic^ ffia^^fcrie whb attempts

* "io.oi&t.OT deceive j to ' ^tirtfi^&frJfcforln-thd-fecict.
"Til be up with iimVtf'wltti^if !i^W%te^ S • • 4 "

IJjr Hilxs.. , Falfe, dice, that run high.

Upper Benjamins A great coat*, -ucuit* .

• Upper

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Upper Story, or Garrex.^ |igufativety ufed to Jfignify the
head* His upper ftory or jgatrcts sure enferatflied ; i. e. he
is an empty or foolifii fallow/

Upping Block. [Called ia ibme counties a leaping ftock»
ia othrfs a joflihg blook.] ^ Steps* for mounting a horie. He
its like a toad on a pffing block ; (aid of one who $t^ *p-

gracefully on horieback. . . v * *

* . • • . "■"•*•• ••>•'* • -. • * -

Uppisb. Teity* apt to tactic offence* , 1( t ■ ^

Ufriqht. Go uptight ; % woxfl ufejj by Ihocjiaejteis* tayl^i,

' arvt their fervants, when any money U given to make, them
drinj^ and Signifies, Bring it all out in liquor, though the
dooot itatinded left, and ex pe&s "change, or forhe of hie

•* money, le fie returned. Three-penny upright. SccThrei-

: ' " Ft smt ' Ur roar-

Upright Ma^. Aii upright man fignifies tfre chief or prin-
cipal of a crew. The vveft, ftouteft rogue in the pack Is
generally chofen to thin peti> and Has the fole right to the
fir ft night's lodging with the dells, who afterwards are ufed in
common among the whole fraternity. He carries a fhort
truncheon in his hand, which he calls his filchman, and has
a larger (hare than ordinary in whatfoever is gotten in the
fbctety. He often travels in company with thirty or forty
m*m and females,* ttbram men, and others, over, whom he
gre&des affet&ftfily* Sometimes the women and children
who are onabJe to travel, or fatigued* are by turns curried
in pannt*c$ b^ at* afi or two, or by fome poor jadw procured
for abetparpofc. >

Upstarts* J ^«fom latefy raifed' lib honours and riches from
mean ftatioas*

Urchin; A child, a rlttte fcftortr 5 aifo a hedgehog.

UltiNAt of tub Planets, Ireland ; fo called from the fie-
quent rains in that Iflaud.

UscD up. Killed :. a military faying* originating from a mef-
fage feat try, tho. ia^ General Quife, on the expedition
at Carthageaa, where he -defined the commander in chief to
order him fome se&B* gaan&Uers, for thofe he had wear- all
ufedup* . v .- ..•#.*

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ABLER. Footwablcr; a contemptuous term far aTFoft
fcldie*, frequently ufei by thole' 6f the tavalry. f '

Wacut; ' The'brethrefn of 'this* fociety held their raeetings'at

• the «ch, in iwiftGitfy-w •*'• -vr. :- *.. '.' ; ; ■*

*To Wabdi.e». - To.ga liW.*4«^. T£*paddk wt ©C Charge
", Atyqr A*a ltine^ducki altera* for ^^wJh> has *ot hesa^able
to pay his gaming debts, called his diffe^en^est flfl lb* Stock
Exchange, and therefore aWeott himfctf frq^p ^ w _ ^

Wag. . An arch fiolic&me fellow* -♦, . - •* •» u->.

Waocish. Arch) gaofefoae, Irojklbrnev • •'

♦Waggon Lay. Waiting in the itreet co rt>b 'waggons going
< out or coming into" town, both commonly happening in the
» datk.

Wagtail. A lewd woman*

S^ts, Maficiaos .of the lover ordeiy who in jftoft towns
a« f>la/ under the windows of the eiuef intaibfaam* at midnight,
*. a mar* time before vChriftmas* for which ttotjr eoiictt a
, « cjur&maa-boii fcp«:hou{e to. hoofe. They act faai to derive

their name of waits, from being always r* waking to- cele-
^ brate weddings and .other joyous eyeox* happening witbia

their diftricl. •,•„...*-

Wake* A country feaft, coiAawmly oft the amuverfaxy of the
tutelar faint of the village, that „ ia, |he. faint to whom the
' paffth church is dedicated:' " AMb a cuftom of watching the
dead, called Late Wake, in ufe botti in Ireland and Wales,
«*riieife4he corpfc being depofitoi under a table, with a plate
.- sf felt on its hreaft, the table t* coveted with liquor or all
■v fe*tsj and theguefts, pari^ulariy the younger part of them,
^.ama^t (bemfelves with all kinds WpafthHcs^md recreations :
, die confequence is generally more than replacing the de-
parted friend.

Walking Cornet* Anenfign of foot.

Walking Poultere*. One who fteah fowls, and hawks
them from door to door.

Walking Stationer. A hawker of pamphlets, &c.

Walking the Plank. A mode of deftroying devoted per-
~ft)as or officers in a mutiny on fhipboard, by blindfolding

G g them,

w he ^a

; ; il[ii|iY'te
ing the penalty of murder* ,:: ^t

. :&hiofe ibfakhotifei iaue ore meaty tt^^^it^if^kp^he
^ : watit of theibar. isilovjjI "io L:/jfi'ii ii.rvfj? 3-s 2:^3 ^o*;^

Wall. To walk or crawl up the wall ; to*h#fiblM tp**fc a
fight, all white like a plaifteredwaH. .^v •»'. ... -^ *hoe^

To Wap. To copulate. If (he won't wap for a wiiftfcjqlet
her trine for a.am^ef£ itfftioOTotf&lirfTWJtll a man for a^ pentf^

let her taftfar « Jia]fBOT9? M°ff WP*E«? #• .Tl^JWitf
.-.pKricnce ? jorvcry. expert at, tpe, Jpert. , r • .,

WAPPER-EYED; wI So^-eyed^. : . . .

WA&at. d Eliefr, in good 'oircHroftaftces. atoi^atst, or give a
mahia umttn^^ <d beat hlHX .^SctfCHiAFilto. > -r. a -v-?-..

W>i^M;>iG-pAN : ; s - A Targe old-fafliionetf watch. A v Setftrch
; warrirlftg-^aV; afeinale bedfeilbW. •* '". V- -'• '> '-> '

Warren, One that M isfecurity for goods talceri'up^'bS^Wttdit

• , ^ytSWfia^a%a^ v jWttng gehtftmem Gimny wane* ^'-'4 ^gifli

boarding- fchool; alfo a bawdy-houfe. ^' r ^'

Wfc'sttt 'Tanfetf-TortAe ftce/or cofflfctto waters H^w^iflr;
thick and bad beer. •"*- •• ^ ; '<'" [ - -'• ^'^

iWA^pr \&n'infe&ed prdftitntc^ :wbolike a wafp casri^a-ffiiSg
in her tail. / / - ''.•".•iN ; ;;qi

W^sfiSH.. ■ P«tvUh x .fpiteful. \, • • - \ ', -. - ,j';ahW

Waste. Houfe of wafte-f 4- *aWm- dr alehoufe whWtfdle
people wafte both their tune: an^roQney* : . *~ * t * h7/

vWa^«.iu .His<hop4 wafeigfl.t a*1t ; b^Jongedearne^ly/ep'TT.
To watch his waters; to kfMff>a (Ui& w#teh en eftyju$*e's

. actions. In hot water: in, trouble, engaged in difputes. TT/

Water bewitched, very weak punch or beer. %a ' miJ iij
Waterpad. ^it^t,|p^i^^.j^^^m^anna jaiH V7

JWWi^m&^lglVMj&lS,! [I.A O V .8AHJWHW

;iWAt *;r S§ Ewtfjw* odA faffa&d&U^wibiq t^r©m^n^p^ng
f. the watefc o#hia* p«jtieat^ ttiax&O

Wattles, '*&ft? \*Wfc : '' ^'"".V-' — -^ :-*«*r«.

Wear A — e. A cne-horfe chaife.

• - ■ 1 9 1/

Weasel^

W M TO

-^f^etf r9K#e*ft^ianthyjte^^ a£ftbVa;ifftarp

face. .Tsfnum lo \jIjsi13ci ads %xi

s-5ft r Ij^^n4"^W>TO« ^CKHnwyaaai MfoiJaWdingpiitocre
black eyes are given inftead of favours; .fajfia^ttoaocwho

4ffEtf0fr< : Sllr«rftatd) be?»tt&Hn«li^li(h^K reefcwrisaofcflqlcn
goods into wedges. >-'£a#tl'n^M r i fi s^il oJiriw il& <iii[/i

Weeping Cross. To co*fae"btakie t\fyl^fagKto&r)itxhW-

WfcEQtf C$tt&~ .' ThethurtiTtf smdfctir frn^ers.R iS\ nrth; i%-i

Witta^rDbtk;?- T&e ficHV Stt^M* T]ifl«if.«; 1 ; f l

We l c h Mi jl e . Like a' Welch mile, tang arid harrow. - *His
ftory is like a Welch mile, long'ahi! te^Toiis; ' 3 , ^ n W

Welch Rabbit. ^i. : e. a WtlehVare bit.j -'-'Bfttf Sud'dfe%
- twrftat ^e Rabbi T.^^TheW^khlai^ faid to hbfoj«marfe-

ably fond of dieefe,*hat in cafeisofdHIci^
'. *gply;a pjece.of fetfol-'. cheese to jhe janua~/uj^ z .^Myrtfl

and entice the young Taify, ^wJ^o fp r uiiejling.il rnakc&rnoft
.^or^useffojUfo^onie feth f ^ . , j ; ^ ^,/ '^^ ..

SR'§sxM-i^i»T» W«tWiM^-.:Av^tc^.l^^^.^^ys and a
rogue. .. -\, .'; " ,;.:■ *: v - ;*. , .;- ,. : :

?WMr'?4MoiT< One irbq moiftens h> chyfisee^y, in ctdsr.to
make it ffick together. ^ . •. ^ *j

§ff&r.cQgA:s:xR» -One: *©£ that icclvtfho h&$:no obj«ftion*tatKe
fpirit derived from wine. t .-.

Whack. A (hare of a booty obtained fey fetad. r A paddy
jsiLJrlmlt* a, flout brawny Lrjfliinan,, ;, v J;i , [ #lr .
Whappbr. A large man o^womaft^:^ In; ; . K v; r. ; ->••

Wft*iEt)Lg. A fear^cr; , To our >* 'wheedle-? lio toodf; fey
• fawning or infintiation, (?«#&' «>; ^r^^M.niDi^c''

Wheelband in the Nick. Regular annlcirig over the^Uft
thumb ' j ''"' ' ;; : ~ J f »iiiH^ : ; /• ^s ; j .. ) .. ■.

Whel¥.- c An itripudent %K'eJpV^de^l^'. -V * •• - : ' •** v

Wh er e as. To follow* ? i' wKe 3 ^^' t& WoftiV 1 'a -banld-QrVr, to
i '4£fc&iJaffl&% p*&eek%i|d^ell**tes s : ^e <nt*ktt gfretf in Ac

Gazette thai a CoJttmiffi<M<#^

any trader, always beginning •witj^.tfye w^rdj whereas. He

wiij foon march in the rear of a whereas, " '

• .■ r c '*. "*. i ♦-* * ) ' * '■* * 'i

G g 2 _ Whet.

- - j

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* v

W I JH VI

Wh e t. A monung&to&gluwfc^^

to whet or fharpen the appetite, .^^y ,i*i H£ *!hW
Whetstone's Park, ..^^fefl^^^m^^

ColnVinn JFieldfr f formerly fpm^a for' being the, retort oT

A .ti -J *J™ . J I V < T i 1 H Y/

Wh ids. Words, Cant* . v + r

To Whidplb. To tejl or difcoYer.' Jffe wriiddleV ; he'peacnes.

He whMBifi^'iH^

The cullwhiddled becaufe they wouidinotTti^hia^aicaB^,
the fellow i*ach^ a Mfc

They whiddle beeti' and we fnuft bruih : , they cry out thieve^
ind we muft ii^die u e*«/^' ,in ■"k" rt/ <- ^••'-'^

WH fi> bilfau ' r Arr 4i«r A*; 'V : bi£ feWfafaMie ~&M& df

the gang, :^ ,,,v ' ; '' j -"'- / --:^^<-

Wm^i-Vi; ; ^axatiori of Wfcroti^f 3 ■ " ' '.' " ^

Whif^e'rIl' ( J^d'#it 'iaftie ft>r ;T rlfcri * ,alj(o p£rfdhs at/ tri
univerfities who examine candidates for degrees, A whif*

-wAwL^iifec ^bflii^- "' ""' ' ,J ■"* J ' • : r "* : ' : '" ' ' , - : ". '

iWiJllNtfiARJwiv/ A jfarofcd* r- " #-.'•'. ■-■ ,'i :>l ii£

To Whip the CoctfT^A picee of fpoti piz&\M at J waTce«,

horfe -races, and faiwin Lcieeftcr(lvir&: a code beittg t Jed 6r

j failene^int^ ^ f}RtrOr r hafc^t, half adQzea carters b^iSifold^d,

and armed _with.tji$ir cart, w^ips, are J>laqe4 Tpu#c^i6) who,

, after being: turned thrice about, begin to whip, the cook,

which it £ny onp ftrikes lo as to make it .cry £ut, jt>e,c<#nes

? 'Ms' property ; the joke is, that ihftead 6F whipping ihV&Ock

they flog each other heartily, ... ..:

Warp JaC£S." The tenth order of the canting cre^ rogues
who having learned a few fea terms, beg with counterfeit
paffes, pretending to be failors (hrpwrecked- i^^the r Neigh-
bouring coaft, and on their wayr.ta-tte pott fr6ra"3«he§&

UJo Wj* jp;Of^^ ; T9)f^nia^yr4^dl^nk.oJFgre»iii|ft t^Jtestch.
w&l ^Up^A t w^ft°^k^m^yf^^ ttp^hei 4le^fijpitf^)£H*ere
;; ^^mm^pS^ foM-j&ftkfcrf> #«4^mi9g;bas:fc»ibi^isd off
.^.^llpw^^^o^ihh?^// Ili/i w h> <%:?.(/! .^ini

Whip-belly Vengeance, or pmch-gut vengeiaf^-i^^HMch
, t . he that ^a ^e 7{ rn<^ i ^as /v tbe jwi^^^e. W^k -or i*»r

Whipper-

w m n

Whipshiri. Yorkftritt. • aii:8 W B ■* n*,™* ■'■ »*• -?

:; = r -■ -_. = -in; -.■iv'ini i.iv:;U -'-jirriJol ,;'..■■. i r-j ..'■■>■:;,

Whipt SyllAui. A ffinjy, irothy .Wfi9Wi^Jfi?W^
without folidby.

W H lRI,YC,ICS,,.TMic#«.

i^aO .tbioW

>Hwiiic»iw"':Aigr»acli*u'f« v-jclj si-ja >ail baibtiilwiim ariT

«.:-.:., . ■ , „ :: ■ -:u :-.: i.. ~i j-ibt'.E Atsd slljtrfi'.v V .'1
hiSsin. A ftaltow DrowadfUfkii^f^w^ ft(J7] 9 , w f, oa

Whi.sJJT- ..A.iflaltfiurK muc^dr^.ifl^andj^.fBi^
" horfe chaife. See Tim Whisky. s >.

Whistle. The thj,oaf,, Tp-wet pp^ywliiffje ; t§ dru^".*/
Whistmvc Shop. . Rgojns,ifi$e .PingK^chffKtJ^Jflsje
' drams are privately' fold. ; ...", .,"..■,... „.,.", ij , „.':", ,.. u , .„
Whit. [i. e. Whittington's.lj. Nflw^Me. 1 ., e#*.rr-FJVfti*iii-
padders are rubbed in thedarkmans cu;t,o,f.the w^hjt, arvj.arje
piked into the deufeaville ; five highwaymen 'Broke oi.it, af-
Newgate in the nighr, and- arc gone irito"the crtiftrtfy 1 .'" '•'-'-"
White Fba'thbr. He has a wWttflSfc/^k \i 'a'cbwafd:
an allufion to a game cock, where fining A w\xaxitsxktX<'U
., a groof bcitnot ofthf tfueganje.breed,,. ■, ,,,, ,,, H y/ ,/r*
,WHl»Brfc<VEiti!»* -CowanHy, uialitiousj -.ns ,? ■•s-i-sh.-.ri
•W»it'b Lib. A hartiilefc lie, l onc-t>ot , tbld*ft« : i triajieious
- inte&t, a lie told to reconcile people "at variimceV' " ! , ■ : [~
WiIite Serjeant. A man fetched from the/ tav'erji'flr^ale-
; ;"''.hoafe*by his wife, is faid to be arrettcd.^'byth.e'wliite/ci'-
■'■■-"' jeaht> ' 'i. ■",.,'' v".v .' '■Vor : t"v9ii

White Swbliing. A woman big with child is faid to have
; a white Celling. ' " ; ' ? " I \ "V "-'-«*"

.JUTE T*KS, GtBOVa-, ,-!-,^ -tff ,,) -^brwj'nq ,«.T}£q

jWhSwe-Wooi-.' Geneva.-' »>i' «" I"'" ififo iiv.jctf

W H ITiCHA>BL. W

.rbariia*! nature" '$aVe

:-s*ujo«»"li"fic' ; ST.^G

- wiKiidifcfS*wj*-<a

knife. To play i , ,

aad: kings fiift. ..._ ,br,i" 10 , ±-)i>\AVAi)t *■..-■. - ■'■ V*
WflHWHAPE^^^WtW^? ri) > ) -c![fe' rQ )r s ^otrK:rhood under
ihe government of a pn tor.

Whiti-

infolvency, to defraud hit creditors, is £dd to MrV&tidbn
whitewa(hed» Mmiiool A .Tarjp? qjjW

Htm l i ty.ir.^tr t rr.'n our- orlw t^b^s? khv-' 1o 3Lo.n s ^rriwoilo}
Wwithbiugo,!b% ^olmsdfcio^fifBKlbe&^foxnef!!^

Whittington's Cot&atokv ?3^g6*e* ^toc^r^kfciby
the famous Lord Mayor of that name* ^wr A „* i #

Whojis's vuRsi- A piece of gold coin, value five fhilhngs

- aid" <hh*e fynkl*tt6$*M? #v&i td wdrAe&of the towtf by

ftch as profeued always to give gold, and who before tlte'in-

ttodoftion of thi^^e^ei wayargavy haifm^uiittair, g^ f#

Who&b's Krtt* wd^e* Wintaifcfiote* *A baftaxl^ f ^ <i :< \H

Wjitalrfrotugftjir: A *ta*M*#t -teieps mp**, A** ont^fljcfty
A country gentleman, who kept, *;fcn*fc ,friendj bpingVP-
provcd by.iqe parfpn of the pariih, aqd ftylpd a whore-moq ??
-►er, a&etf "tii^piaVlbn whether hrhida chiiefe in his hfttfiV;
imbfafairjg *i*facga im&* affiryrtttive,^ Pray, 1 fay i lie,, fdoe^
« that one cheefe make you a checfe-monger f * ^ /. ;

Whow Ball, A milk-maid :«&brm their irto^ent aft *>f ^htf

* wotd^qfiikenvt $o make ^be^aw* ,ftao4 8$ in milking ,, J$l if?

* the iiippofed name of the cow. " * , „-^

>V f B^B v .^^k^. ^ .,„,, . ... ,,. >., */'"/%'/
WJil-W'l Wj.TC«k ■:: Il^fou* j^f: rfubl J, fl^W £tme,^4|^J$

Wiblingi who in the reign of King James I. grew fl^hi^y
private gaming, and was QQnunon^y qbXpmd ^ hay^^j^
card, and never |o lofe a game trot, when he had it not/ x

denoting her date. A grafs widow ; a &fcardt& Jfetftft^rft
' laid, but not certainly known, to be dead, SnijO'Siih 10

water colours being, like t

diflblyed., . / „ " * ""*.

VVjcsBr. Mr. Wiglbjr j a man wearing a wig.

Wild

Wild Sojjiet. A loofenefs* Jj.>r[ : ^-*ui.\w

VfofoMm&SfciiW ^<x^aur*riM<hh p*i£wi,< lite *fttf
following a flock of wild geefe, who are remarkably fhyiu

T&i 03s MBfiflEttreol A^fiotf fantfiyror learning gii«orwasi: r miW

Willow. PoxS^SMWii&W^^

Win. A penny* •oman Jfirib So io\i*M bioJ av»>mj,i iw?

__ _ •- , *^i>V ^ut^fi \i»t)t;l * i*tl r»;{*f Vit* io

Wind. Toraife the wind j to.procujfe money,

J^U^iiF .*»*'*; ?V'£V; <fi'.X> ]•>*<>£ R> fiDtm A .^'"-vjJ •? ,?;y.:-«W

Windmii.iw^;t^'HsIM^d.'>. F^ o«<?6oh?>?j

Window PrfBpfcaw AA coileftdr^tf>fe wioiiow tax^l SzxouW
WVn d w a rd ; Pas * #fc *•; ? Owe *wfeo ttfcs or navigate* tht *ritt<&

WiifK. ^q tip one5 the wii^r ta gfrea figaafifay ^nkirfythe
eye, *" ::7va:n .Ji-_..ii\ t ; «>t, ■■'a^fn-alao.'ia 0;io J£>i: *

Winnings. Plunder, goods, or nwneyjttslj&redsby th«fc h 7/

Wmte«;Ctocif«-r\'f*AttflyloV.. ^i*^i!lm A* ..j:-*? ^oh >j7 /

WinHW^OM - u M ^-ftk^^^mtet 1 ! °&#^ffioti ~|ni

Wi

^^Eil^Ayiia^tai^^^. **'*>* •■s- ii '' : -"* • > '\* is x

Wiper Drawer. A pickpocket, one who tteals haridker* y
chiefs. He drew imtiffiitm, ^rri^P^^ked^wl^r jf

#^R^Ai. : ' r ^^

or difcourfe .->^h 33 ok t awcnjl yirtiKji^o Jon ti/a fW;.r

Wise Mir of Gotham., Gotham It a Tillage in Nottingt*
hunfluie: its m$m*\mmMmu!^tite*& r

■U51'//

, in a cucfeiw: a bu&, callM the £ueJcow'sJ?uft* ; U $ifl
. fhewo |n fupport pf the tradition, A.tnoufand otter ndicu-
, lous ftories arc told of the me$ pjf (jojha^n, ,

Wiseacre. A faolifh conceited fellow,

Ww^t aq**VHall.. -Gteiham college.

Wit, He has as much wit as three folks, »two look and a

Witcher. Silver, WUcher bubber; a filvcr bowl, Wit-
.chex filter; a. filyer-hilied fword. Witcher cully; a,fiLvej r

% 4nuth. • ' ,.' ' •; .>.;../

To'Wobbljb. To boil* Ppt wojbhler; One whp Mils a>
'pot.

Wol f i n t a e Br e a s t- An extraordinary mode of impofition,
ibttletimes pra&ifed in the country by ftrofling women, who
liave the knack of counterfeiting extreme pain, pretending to
have a fmall animal called a wolf in»their breads, which is
continually gnawing them.

Wole in the .S;t0Ma.ch. A monftroiLB pc canine appe-
tite. ... . , • ♦

W r oop. In a wood; bewildered, in a maze, in a peck of
troubles, puzzled, or at a lafs what courfc to take in any
buimefs. To look over the wood ; to afceod the pulpit, to
preach : I (hall look over the wood at St. Jarness on Sunday
next. . To look through the wood ; to Hand in ,the piUory ..

Wood Pecker* A byftander, who *bets whilft another

jfcys- '■"■-• • . . . .. .

• *

Woodcock. A taylor with a long bill.

'Wooded Habeas. A. coffin. ; A man who dies rh prifon is
-faid to go out with a wooden habeas. He went out w.ith a
". wooden habeas $ i. e. his coffin. • *

Wooden Horse. To ride the wooden horfe, was a military
puniihment formerly in ufe. . This horfe confided of two or
more planks about eight feet -long, lixed together fbva^Ksr
form a fharp ridge or angle, which anfwered to the body irf
the horfe. It was fupported by four pofts, about. fix feet long,
for leg?. A head, neck, and tail, rudely cm. in wood* wre
added, which completed the appearance of a .horfe* , '0n.|his
4harp ridge delinquents were mounted, with their, han3s sicd
behind them ; and to fteady them (as it was faid), and left the;
horfe fhould kick them off, one or more firelocks we're tied
to each leg. In this ftehation they'were fomctimes condens-
ed to fit an hour or two ; but at length it having been found

- to

\

<tv ( & 1

- ftoim/ it ivar^

; George I. A wodetf horfe was ftatfcKttg' in the Parade at

Portfmouth as late aw«fe>ybat r^jo^ ' : s A < ; v-

Wooden RtfrF* TWjrilloty; SfteKoR^ATiNi^at&tk/

Vtl©w*w SuRTotf t* ' Ac^Siu • '- *' <^ ^■■■-d^'-\ "' \* ,

Woman of the TowJj, or Woman or PLEAstfRti A,
^pYoftittrte* " '■ \. ,/ :, - v s *"'';//•'■ ..--•.->* '..»s ■■..<.'

Woma^ a wo' h ik Husband. A married couple,' Where jhe
. woman is bigger than her hufband. /

Wom a n*s Conscience. Never fatisfied. : ' '' iJ ' :

Woman of e*- fc Work. Sometimes applied to a female fee-
* vant,whb refiifes none of her malier*s coriiimartds. ". ■* '

Womb let y Cb.opt« The indifpofkion of a drunkard after a

; debauch. See Cslopsick.

» . ■ > . ■ . ■> .••.--

Woolbird. A fheep. Cant.

Wool Gat he ri no. , . Your wits are gone; a wool gathering ;
faying to an abferit man, one in a reverie, or abforbed in

Woo fc^mh Crowns A fcft-headed fellow*. < r - ;

Word Gr^bb^r?. Verbal critics, and alfoperfons who >iife
"hard words in common difecurfe. "- : '\'- ■ ; v ^ *

Word Pecker. ' Apunfter, one who : plays upon words.

"W6Rtr°orMoTJTK.' To drink by word of mbuth ; I. e.-'oiit of *
the bowl or bottle inftead of a glafs.

World. All the world and nis wife; every body, a great
company. >-i'v *■/,•»• •_- .-.?* . .-. ,'-.-••■ . ■ -.-.- . - ."'•

W<>RM. :: Td-Wofte outV't^obtafTi the knowledge of a fee ret
by craft, alfo to underrhinebrfopplant, - 1 He is gone to the
. r d^^,of wpfin^j .he i&4^^^d ^K^d, or gone to Ret-hii-
., bone.]. ;■-> . .;■:,---< :.'7 •..-"': '- ■•; : — < . ,

WgfApllAsCAti "A; rtdicfoakj calted alfo a roquelaife.

faying of any brie 7
. f Tb be yf apt "up in any one ;' to have a good opinjoii of him 3
bt to blunder his 'Muencei 1 ^ < '-- - -

- # . ■*■

vyij^KL.E, A wrinkle- bellied whctfe^oRft- who has had a

. .number or boards.; .c^ifi bearing lea ves wrjnkks ia a

, womanV belly. . To take- i the wjij^i^ -out of any one'!*

-belly; to fill it out by a hearty meal. You have one

H h wrinkle